Phil K. Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 I migrated from vBulletin 4 using the converter for a self hosted installation. Everything went very smoothly with the single exception that the past 10 months of posts in all forums disappeared. I ran the converter again on just the forum posts and users and it finished nearly instantly with no change. Anyone have any ideas?
Daniel F Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 So you're saying that there were no errors while the conversion? It's weird that ALL posts from the last 10 months got lost and which doesn't sound like a bug per se. Are you sure that you used the right database and not one with a backup?
Management Charles Posted September 10, 2021 Management Posted September 10, 2021 @Phillip Kocher Were you able to see what is going on? The vBulletin 4 converter is well-tested and used quite often so it should work well. Phil K. 1
Miss_B Posted September 10, 2021 Posted September 10, 2021 On 9/5/2021 at 6:25 AM, Phillip Kocher said: I migrated from vBulletin 4 using the converter for a self hosted installation. Everything went very smoothly with the single exception that the past 10 months of posts in all forums disappeared. I ran the converter again on just the forum posts and users and it finished nearly instantly with no change. Anyone have any ideas? That is indeed strange. Conversion should not loose posts. Maybe the content was not rebuilt properly after the conversion. Another thing to check is the ModCp->Deleted Content and Approval Queue. Are they empty or do they contain topics? What about the database? Can you check the topics and posts table and see if the latest content is there?
Solution Phil K. Posted September 22, 2021 Author Solution Posted September 22, 2021 Hi guys, sorry — I could have sworn I had updated this, but just realized I hadn't. It turns out, our database was split on the same day our host migrated their cPanel to a new platform. We were seeing two databases, with one reading 0kb, so we assumed it was a weird empty duplicate. Turns out, not. All the posts from the last ten months were in there. We just re-ran the converter on that database, deleted duplicate threads, and all is well now! Jim M and Marc 2
Marc Posted September 23, 2021 Posted September 23, 2021 11 hours ago, Phillip Kocher said: Hi guys, sorry — I could have sworn I had updated this, but just realized I hadn't. It turns out, our database was split on the same day our host migrated their cPanel to a new platform. We were seeing two databases, with one reading 0kb, so we assumed it was a weird empty duplicate. Turns out, not. All the posts from the last ten months were in there. We just re-ran the converter on that database, deleted duplicate threads, and all is well now! Thank you for the update, and glad to see you managed to get the data you needed there Phil K. 1
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