Excuse my tunnel vision here. I looked at each option you gave.
@warmweer Bigdump looks like the choice to import. I tried it years ago before trying MySQLDumper. Thank you.
@thecoalman I tried both PuTTy and Bitvise. Both installed on my computer fine. PuTTy connected to the server and then the connection dropped on their end immediately every time. I went back and forth with tech support, they whitelisted my IP repeatedly but we could never get it to work. Then I tried Bitvise, same thing, connected and aborted on their end. I went back to tech support, got a different guy, who literally posted me a copy/paste of advice off of stackoverflow which didn't even apply to the SSH client, it applied to the server product from Bitvise. One of the guys did a wildcard IP 0.0.0.0/0 , warned me that it was a security issue, and it still didn't work.
A few days later I tried their SSH terminal built into the UI. Could not get that to work, but I'm no computer whiz. Kept getting something like no such file or directory. I wasn't sure I had my command formulated correctly, so I checked with tech support again, ensured it was correct, still did not work. They tried everything, said something vague about a permissions issue. (I need to learn to jump in and say, "OK, will you fix it please.") I'm not the hosting account owner but have full access, so I don't know. It was letting me make commands, it just wasn't giving the results. Maybe they didn't know how to formulate it either, I have no idea.
@invenio I read your backup KB article, which was good. That was why I decided to try the ACP again. But the ACP backup ran a short time and completed. It was about half the size of a MySQLDumper .sql file. Today I opened the .sql file in my editor and tried to see if it was incomplete. I read Lumpy Burgertushie's advice in another topic to check at the end and see if Zebra was there. Yes, it is. But then I went to the posts table and looked at the Insert commands. They start on line 976 and end on line 2160 and appear to take 2 lines each in the ACP dump. So 2160-976=1184, and 1184/2= 592. That makes me think the ACP only dumped 592 posts. The board has more like 100,000. Attaching a screenshot of the beginning and end. So I don't think it completed, even though it went to the end, but it didn't give an error. Is there a log where I would check for an error?
When I check an older (smaller number of posts) MySQLDumper .sql file, it starts at 66985 and goes to 164,387, one line each Insert, so that's around 97,402, which is about right.
I wish I could use the ACP, and maybe it works on other servers, but I don't think it worked for me. Maybe the fact that the board is 3.3.2 and the PHP version is 8.1.29 messed it up.
Appreciate the comments. Any others welcome, too. Thanks
@warmweer Bigdump looks like the choice to import. I tried it years ago before trying MySQLDumper. Thank you.
@thecoalman I tried both PuTTy and Bitvise. Both installed on my computer fine. PuTTy connected to the server and then the connection dropped on their end immediately every time. I went back and forth with tech support, they whitelisted my IP repeatedly but we could never get it to work. Then I tried Bitvise, same thing, connected and aborted on their end. I went back to tech support, got a different guy, who literally posted me a copy/paste of advice off of stackoverflow which didn't even apply to the SSH client, it applied to the server product from Bitvise. One of the guys did a wildcard IP 0.0.0.0/0 , warned me that it was a security issue, and it still didn't work.
A few days later I tried their SSH terminal built into the UI. Could not get that to work, but I'm no computer whiz. Kept getting something like no such file or directory. I wasn't sure I had my command formulated correctly, so I checked with tech support again, ensured it was correct, still did not work. They tried everything, said something vague about a permissions issue. (I need to learn to jump in and say, "OK, will you fix it please.") I'm not the hosting account owner but have full access, so I don't know. It was letting me make commands, it just wasn't giving the results. Maybe they didn't know how to formulate it either, I have no idea.
@invenio I read your backup KB article, which was good. That was why I decided to try the ACP again. But the ACP backup ran a short time and completed. It was about half the size of a MySQLDumper .sql file. Today I opened the .sql file in my editor and tried to see if it was incomplete. I read Lumpy Burgertushie's advice in another topic to check at the end and see if Zebra was there. Yes, it is. But then I went to the posts table and looked at the Insert commands. They start on line 976 and end on line 2160 and appear to take 2 lines each in the ACP dump. So 2160-976=1184, and 1184/2= 592. That makes me think the ACP only dumped 592 posts. The board has more like 100,000. Attaching a screenshot of the beginning and end. So I don't think it completed, even though it went to the end, but it didn't give an error. Is there a log where I would check for an error?
When I check an older (smaller number of posts) MySQLDumper .sql file, it starts at 66985 and goes to 164,387, one line each Insert, so that's around 97,402, which is about right.
I wish I could use the ACP, and maybe it works on other servers, but I don't think it worked for me. Maybe the fact that the board is 3.3.2 and the PHP version is 8.1.29 messed it up.
Appreciate the comments. Any others welcome, too. Thanks
Statistics: Posted by CarolC1 — Wed Oct 09, 2024 10:10 pm
