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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Archive updated again. Unfortunately forgot to revisit this thread before preparing it so the search contribution still hasn't been added. Archive is
now current through 6 May 2015.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This release is 9,099,728,384 bytes in size, md5 hash 9f273ff2624d89c845ab02f7a210bcb3.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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Archive updated again. Archive is now current through 23 September 2015.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This release is 10,673,768,448 bytes in size, md5 hash accd4811ce4f8b8125b19793c3794f25.
The live forum is growing so large, and the archive itself is taking so much space, that I may have to take the archive offline in a few days just to
free up space for the live forum. Please send me a U2U if you can host large files like this.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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Archive updated again. Archive is now current through 16 January 2016.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This release is 11,788,337,664 bytes in size, md5 hash 2371a99d11c848860b18933c37942233.
Remember, if you are unhappy with the administration of the forum, the archive is a chance to replicate Sciencemadness elesewhere, under different
leaders and rules. The archive comes with tools to ease replication onto a new host, though you will still need reasonable familiarity with
Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. This is a chance at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty">exit</a>, so that I do not
have the temptation or the means to leave members stuck in an organization they are unhappy with.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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Archive updated again. Archive is now current through 13 June 2016.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This release is 13,077,444,608 bytes in size, md5 hash 0fb52f91cac5efacb570deefb1cbef94.
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gdflp
Super Moderator
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Location: NY, USA
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While the current backup is offline, if anyone wants it right now : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6GYzE-Eq2NmaVJFbVpKNUV0Nl...
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Obstbraten
Harmless
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Is there a 2017 backup available? You could host it at google drive or mega.nz
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Mabus
Wiki Master
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So... are there any backups of the site for this year?
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Melgar
Anti-Spam Agent
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Registered: 23-2-2010
Location: Connecticut
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Okay, in case anyone is having trouble with this or wants to do something similar to what I'm doing, I got the virtual machine running remotely in a
headless configuration. VirtualBox can be installed and run via a command line, making it a million times easier to work with via a standard
terminal, rather than try to figure out all the quirks of the virtual machine terminal. This allows for easily accessing the guest's filesystem from
the host, since you can use tools like rsync and scp over ssh. Since I didn't want to waste my phone's data, I spun up a new Ubuntu server on AWS,
then downloaded gflip's copy of the virtual machine here:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B6GYzE-Eq2NmaVJFbVpKNUV0NlE&...
The following perl script will be able to download the file from the above url:
https://github.com/circulosmeos/gdown.pl
Then I set it up so that I could SSH into it locally, using port forwarding as described here:
https://leemendelowitz.github.io/blog/ubuntu-server-virtualb...
The SQL database for the site, compressed, is about 8GB. This seems excessive. Will need to look into it some more.
The first step in the process of learning something is admitting that you don't know it already.
I'm givin' the spam shields max power at full warp, but they just dinna have the power! We're gonna have to evacuate to new forum software!
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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I have updated the archive a couple of times since I last posted about an update, but I haven't kept up with the announcements.
The archive has been updated again. It is now current through 2 June 2018.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This release is 17,826,357,248 bytes in size, md5 hash 17a2410fbb29563c776a81a04e70433c.
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streety
Hazard to Others
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I'm getting a "Forbidden" error on that file.
[Edited on 9-6-2018 by streety]
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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File permissions have been fixed.
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streety
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The download has started so looks like it is now good.
I downloaded the previous backup and managed to get it running. Remarkably simple.
I downloaded it with the intention of helping Melgar migrate the forum software. phpBB is complex!
I may also parse the posts to extract any youtube links in my ongoing efforts to make copies of all relevant channels.
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headrx
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Anyone able to add this to a torrent? Us slower connections wont be able keep a solid connection long enoguh to get it
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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The archive has been updated again, after a long delay. It is now current through 8 February 2020.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This release is 21,241,060,864 bytes in size, sha256 hash aa4f54ea040b4c826597accec11d20020fa686707a85c3a673c357a8474aa176.
[Edited on 2-16-2020 by Polverone]
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Rosco Bodine
Banned
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You meant 8 February *2020* ....NOT... 2019.... Correct ?
Also please confirm this linked VM is still valid
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
[Edited on 2/16/2020 by Rosco Bodine]
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fusso
International Hazard
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Location: 4 ∥ universes ahead of you
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So when will we move to new forum software?????
[Edited on 200216 by fusso]
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woelen
Super Administrator
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Why such an angry message? Keep in mind that this is all voluntary and unpaid work from the side of Polverone. Of course you can ask for when new
software will be available, but sending such an angry-looking message is not the way to go. Also keep in mind, that despite all kinds of problems with
software and otherwise, the forums still are alive and kickin' with an active and enthusiastic member base, already for 17 years! For this I want to
thank Polverone and of course the community around sciencemadness! How many other forums survive that long? Most of them go out slowly and silently,
some after just a few months, others after a few years.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Oops! Yes, 2020. Message updated. The VirtualBox virtualization software is still the right choice for running this image.
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RogueRose
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Quote: Originally posted by Polverone  |
Oops! Yes, 2020. Message updated. The VirtualBox virtualization software is still the right choice for running this image. |
Is it possible to do a differential or incremental backup? I think it would be great if every year there was a full backup made and then do an
incremental or differential backup each month so people could just download the monthly updates to have their backup fully functional with the latest
posts. It's just a thought, I really hate where I see some things going with online censorship and this is one area where being proactive is
priceless.
If you need or want any help doing this or figuring out if this is possible, I'd be happy to do so. I'll also be happy to host any/all of the files
on a HTTP/FTP download page and as torrents.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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The archive has been updated again. It is now current through 25 July 2021.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This release is 25,143,577,600 bytes in size, md5 hash dc067d28948ed16ca36a73e6cfa7d3c6.
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RogueRose
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I was wondering if there is a chance of updating the site backup or if there is a way to create a differential file that could include any new threads
since the last backup or ideally any thread that has been altered since the last backup.
I would be willing to host any file (the original, a differential or a new complete backup) on my torrent servers as I have 2, one that is 10GBps
& one that is 1Gbps.
The only issues I can see about doing an differential is it might be difficult to incorperate it into the existing files unless the files just
over-write the older files with the updated files.
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