DELETED MESSAGES?!?!?!?

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 3:57 pm

Hello!
I have a forum here at http://forum.zibri.org

Subforum http://forum.zibri.org/f4-agif used to have more than 78 PAGES of messages.
It now has only 8!!!

What happened???
Please tell you messed up and you have a backup!

by Sir Chivas™ March 18th 2013, 4:07 pm

Hi,

Please change the title of your topic, that is related to your question/issue, so that other users will be able to find their question/issue using the search engine.

Have you recently backed up your forum?
https://help.forumotion.com/t64905-how-does-a-backup-work

Regards,
Sir Chivas. king

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 5:46 pm

Ok. I restored a backup of 2 days ago and everything SEEMED ok.

I obviously had a topic DOUBLED (with the new posts and old posts).

So I merged the 2 subforums and again I got only 7 pages.

What should I do?

by **SLGray** March 18th 2013, 5:53 pm

Are you talking about forums or topics?

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 5:54 pm

It's a topic inside a subforum.

When I restore I found 2 "same topics". 1 with the first 73 pages.
The second one with apparently 8 pages, but they seem to be 3.
If I merge them I get 8 pages total and not 80.
I did this twice. Same behaviour.

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 5:56 pm

They are the first 2 topics in this forum: http://forum.zibri.org/f4-agif

I locked the big one now to avoid any problems.

Do you have any clue?

Can I download a full backup of the forum (just in case) ?

by **SLGray** March 18th 2013, 6:05 pm

Please don't double/triple post. Your post need to be separated by 24 hours before bumping, replying or adding more information. Please use the edit button instead!

There is a limit for topics:

https://help.forumotion.com/t1709-some-limits-of-forumotion-forum

Messages in a subject: 990 messages (once the limit reached, the subject is locked and splitted)

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 6:24 pm

Nevermind.. I just noticed that forums splits topic automatically at 66th page. How can I copnfigure that?

by **SLGray** March 18th 2013, 6:31 pm

Administration Panel > General > Messages & Emails > Configuration
Messages Section
Posts Per Page:
Even if you change this when you hit the limit, the thread will be split and the old part will be locked.

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 6:46 pm

Ok. Got it. How can I have a local (download) backup of the forum?

by **SLGray** March 18th 2013, 6:50 pm

Why would you need a backup? The topics are not deleted.

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 6:52 pm

Just to have a personal copy of my forum.
For archiving purposes mainly.

by **SLGray** March 18th 2013, 6:55 pm

The only why to access backups is through the Forum Utilities. Backups are not give out to users.

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 7:06 pm

Why not? What if (one day for some reason) I will need to transfer this forum?

by Sir Chivas™ March 18th 2013, 7:15 pm

If you're referring to th database? You can't access it nor transfer it to another hosting.

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 7:34 pm

That's unfair. Even the evil google allows to dump all your data before signing off.

by Sir Chivas™ March 18th 2013, 7:37 pm

Read more here:
https://help.forumotion.com/t6668-forumotion-s-forum-databases

by Zibri March 18th 2013, 7:39 pm

I did. But it's still unfair.
I have no intention of leaving forumotion, but I hope you will understand your mistake. (Or that a lwayer, sooner or later will make you)