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Someone had the knowledge to do it?

i supose searchvoat would still have everything. would be nice to have a downloadable file tho.

Usually forum database backups are fairly small, need downloading and backing up regularly and to be stored securely in multiple places.

When I had forums I backed up daily but you could do it more often to lose less if it collapses or becomes corrupted.

The main weakness with forums is often the hosting service which can kill your access to the hosting control panel overnight often without allowing any meaningful dialogue. You might own the downloaded database and backups but they hold the structure to which it is configured. Free hosting services are to hook you as a 'free friendly hosting' and then they will suddenly block you when they see that you have built up a good forum, knowing that you don't want to throw away what you've built. They hope that to keep going you will upgrade to paid hosting. It's the 'modus operandi' of quite a few of those that offer 'free' hosting.
The thing about having your own forum, database/backups and hosting it yourself is that you are more independent to a degree and even if an ISP threatens etc you can take up your stuff and move without it being a big problem.

All of the userdata, including member posts, email addresses and all the rest is in your backups. You might have 5 or ten new members one day or more. If something crashes and you haven't backed up after they enrolled...they are lost including their settings and preferences etc. If you didn't have them on your email list you couldn't even apologise to them for the disappearance of their identity.
You need to own as much of the 'platform' as you can and not put all your eggs in one basket.
Mainain accessibility, fluidity and manouverability for yourself and to minimize dependency.

it's been a while for me so this might not be up to date but I just thought that I'd mention these things.

A part of Voat is archived on the WayBack Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/voat.co

Amarilloverde wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 12:45 am Someone had the knowledge to do it?

I have the knowledge but not the data, the only person that has that is putitout, and I dont think he will give it..

luckily searchvoat has almost all of the data from crawling it.. so thats cool anyway.

redsun wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 12:40 pm A part of Voat is archived on the WayBack Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/voat.co

Wayback has been purging "dangerous" content since corona. I thought there was a warning about it posted somewhere on Voat in the past month. We've backed all pizzagate stuff up to both Wayback and archive.is. By "we" I mean the most excellent goat @MadWorld.