Help needed with the club/site/forum

Guys,

As Fabrice has mentioned in the other thread, i am to gather the troops so to speak in order to help backup the interesting parts of this site for migration over to the new site.

It is all very straight forward stuff, no compter knowledge needed really.

In short, we need to take copies of all the data on the site, which is a ball ache and will take a lot of time but it needs to be done.

Once i have a few people willing to help out, i will delegate different parts of the site to different people and add further instructions.

I dont know how much you guys know about the situation the club is in but basically there are a lot of security flaws in the forum software on the server side which is enabling the hacking attacks that we have had going on lately. The hosting company has asked us to upgrade at a cost to ourselves and as we are planning on hosting the site on a kind members own personal servers this would be money wasted.

Therefore the hosting company are threatening to take the site offline and this could happen any day.

(Jud/Fabrice, if i have got any of this wrong then feel free to correct)

So it stands to reason that the faster we get this done the better, i am just asking for a couple of hours of your time maybe?

Thanks

Alex

Zitat von kneekeybee

p.s. I need a new H1 bulb for the HID kit, one of mine keeps 'blinking' - hope it's not the balast unit.

should be under warranty - will contact XLS and get back to you

It worried me for a minute as well!

OK, well here is what we need to do and if we can do it starting asap then that would be good!

It is a very basic task, very basic indeed but given the circumstances i am told it is the best way to back up our data quickly and easily.

Wayne, if you could take "Off Topic"

Tony, could you take pages 1-10 in "Main Discussion"

Alex/Schnitz, could you take 11-20 in "Main Discussion"

Jason, could you take 21-30 in "Main Discussion"

Nickey B, could you take 31-40 in "Main Discussion"

Evren, could you take 41-49 in "Main Discussion"

I will take the showroom, classifieds and dealer forums.

Once this is done, we need to move on to Technics forum and "ClubE31 Forum".

Right, to the nitty gritty.

We need to scour our alloted pages, looking for topics that we think add to the club and contain information that we need to keep, things such as "Cruise Control Retrofit" in the Main Discussion need to be kept but topics such as "Best Wishes 2007" in Off Topic wont really bring anything to the club or the new forums.

Basically you just need to use your discretion.

What we need to do is open said topic, and "select all" - i think most will know how to do it but for the avoidance of doubt, right click with your mouse and click select all. Then copy and paste this into a word document. Save this document into a folder and name it the same as the topic.

After we have the main body of the topic, we need to save any pictures that may be in the topic by right clicking and clicking "save picture as" - now name that picture "picture 1" and put it in the newly created folder with the word document. If there are more than one picture then name then "picture 2", "picture 3" etc etc - you get the idea

Its all a very simplistic way of doing things but its the way it needs to be done.

When this is done in your selected forums, let me know

Once again, the club and I thank you in advance for all your hard work