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In July of 2023, the NewMars site went down for an extended period.
Thanks to work by kbd512 and with the assistance of James Burk of the Mars Society, the site was brought back online.
During the outage, there was an opportunity to consider what it would take to preserve the site with simple text files.
I have begun an experiment to collect topics. The resulting data files appear to contain everything that is needed to rebuild the site.
The Index level is included in the capture.
The topic title is included in the capture.
The user ID is captured, as well as date and time of the original post and the status of the the member
What the preliminary/experimental tests do NOT appear to do is to capture the full text of URLs. To capture those, the Quote feature would appear to be required.
I'm planning to post the capture files on Dropbox, so anyone who might care to work on a website recovery project may do so.
It appears that anyone can create the software configuration needed to support the web site:
Apache web server
MySQL database
php runtime
phpBB forum package
What is needed is software able to pull needed data from the capture logs, and recreate the original posts in a new, empty database.
That software needs to be able to read text files, extract needed data, and write properly formatted commands to the MySQL database.
For each post to be stored, the program must confirm:
1) Index level exists and create it if needed
2) Topic title exists and create it if needed
3) User ID exists and create it if needed
Original post date and time can be preserved as a line of data in the reproduced post.
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This is a test to confirm that the Quote command can pickup detail of URL's. An additional confirmation is that a Quote can capture posts by an administrator, which means that a capture procedure run by a moderator can capture the contents of posts by an administrator. My working assumption is that the protections built into the forum software will carry over, if posts are properly added to the empty database as having ownership by the User ID of record.
I have lots to catch up on for these and many other topics.
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This is for kb512....
Here is the query to collect all the posts in a topic:
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=10545
If you still have webmaster privileges, please see if you can create a version of that query that only delivers the post ID's for a topic.
having the post ID's is much more efficient for the process of performing "Quote" on each post.
This is what the URL for a quote looks like:
https://newmars.com/forums/post.php?tid … qid=212321
The query appears to use both the topic ID and the Post ID to find the right post to show.
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Here is a link to the first test capture of topic 1 through 3:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/imeizq2y … ocdvc&dl=0
The format of the capture log can be improved to help programmers generate MySQL insert commands.
On the other hand, everything needed may already be present. This is a simple capture of the web page for a topic. The next version of capture will include quotes of posts, in order to collect the detail of URL's that are abbreviated by FluxBB for display on the screen.
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I noticed that the page had the Atom topic link, and it outputted what appears to be some of the html code for the page rendering.
It has all of the markings for the posts that are present before this one.
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For SpaceNut .... your observations about the Atom feed inspired me to see what it is...
It appears to be an RSS subscription service.... apparently someone can point an RSS Reader at the link, and the new posts in the forum will be delivered automatically to the reader.
I've never used such a service, so I don't have any experience with it. However, it occurs to me that it might have provided the high quality backup that kdb512 was talking about, if someone had subscribed to the feed over the years it has been available.
Per Google:
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How to subscribe to RSS (Atom) Feeds
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Click Subscribe in the dialog box.
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Select the Include Business Object in Atom Feeds checkbox to send an HTTP request for each entry in the feed to the Atom server to fetch the latest snapshot of ...Subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds
Zimbra server
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Subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds ; In the Folders heading in the Overview pane, click the folder icon. ; In the Name field, type the name of the RSS feed folder.Subscribing to feeds
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Subscribing to feeds. This document describes how Chrome will enable users to subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds in the feed reader of their choice.How to use RSS feed (ATOM link)
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