Re: Digest for ex-joyeurs@googlegroups.com - 6 Messages in 2 Topics

[Eileen Foster]

Thank you Jacques for putting together Plan B & for getting me set-up in my new home.

Think that feeling of pending disaster I've had since Jason's famous August email might subside now.

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:32 PM, <ex-jo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

  Today's Topic Summary

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• "Plan B" Offering to TextDrivers [2 Updates]
• ...webmin... backup? or something? [4 Updates]

 "Plan B" Offering to TextDrivers

Jacques <jmarn...@gmail.com> Feb 22 11:28AM -0800  

Hi,
 
If anyone is interested in "Plan B" offerings drop me a line.
 
Regards
--jm


 

Seth Martin <se...@dcmartins.com> Feb 22 03:31PM -0500  

Hi Jacques.
 
I okay on hosting for now (mostly just mail on fastmail.fm at this
point), but I'd pay to get my data off of miller.joyent.us. :-)
 
-Seth
 
 


 

 ...webmin... backup? or something?

Hannah Blair <hanna...@gmail.com> Feb 21 08:07PM -0800  

Well, here we are. I just figured out about 45 minutes ago that Textdrive
is deceased. Haven't used it much for the last year - mostly switched over
to gmail, and not doing much websiting these days...
 
...BUT I would like my data. I have a backup I made last year (haven't
changed anything since) - pretty sure I used some sort of backup tool in
virtualmin. Now I have a big ol tarball and no idea what to do with it.
My wee computer does not understand what the files are. Unzip it on some
new web server somewhere, when I've got one? Call in the tech support
cavalry (because I am over my head here)? Throw it on the floor and stomp
on it?
 
I would post this on the textdrive forums, but it won't recognize my
password (although it will issue me new ones over and over and then tell me
they're incorrect)....
 
Thanks for any help! What a weird feeling that it might all just be...
gone.
 
 
Hannah


 

Walter Piovesan <wpio...@gmail.com> Feb 21 09:33PM -0800  

I wouldn't say it's officially dead yet. but prognosis not good.
 
More information is needed in order to try and help.
 
What was your last server? was it on the New Textdrive 2 or the older ones
i.e. joyent or heavens forbid the old originaltextdrive?
 
you say you "have a big ol tar ball" what does the file end with .TAR?
What is yr computer ? Windows? Mac?
 
all kinds of utilities will open or untar yr tar'd files.
 
Can you logon to your virtualmin? ssh into yr server? or access your stuff
via PHPMyAdmin?
 
 
On Friday, 21 February 2014 20:07:34 UTC-8, Hannah Blair wrote:


 

lgpiper <lgp...@gmail.com> Feb 22 07:26AM -0800  

What @Bici said. We could use more info. That being said, if you have the
tar ball, you might be able to ship it to someone who could figure out the
unzipping or un-tarring or whatever. I'm pretty sure either @Bici or I
could work out the details.
 
What kind of web sites did you have? Were they just static html files, or
were they something like TextPattern or WordPress. If the latter, then
you'll also need the data bases. Backing them up is different from backing
up your files, but again, either of us can likely help.
 
On Friday, February 21, 2014 11:07:34 PM UTC-5, Hannah Blair wrote:


 

Hannah Mae <hanna...@gmail.com> Feb 22 09:30AM -0800  

The only thing I'm concerned about in the whole lump is my Textpattern
blog. (There's a bunch of other stuff in there, but all of it exists
elsewhere.) I was on Jervis, which I believe was (heaven forbid) the old
original textdrive, and at any rate, doesn't seem to exist right now.
 
(I have not tried logging on to virtualmin or PHPMyAdmin, mainly because
I've forgotten how. But Jervis SFTP, webmail and any other connections
I've tried all seem dead, so I haven't tried to hard to remember.)
 
Attached is a screenshot of what's in the tarball. Anything prefaced with
hannahmaeblair can be ignored (there's not much there anyway), as well as
the mail under ravenousplankton.com. The blog was at ravenousplankton.com.
It worked fine until the changeover in late 2012 or early 2013 or whenever
that was. After the changeover, it looked weird, but the content seemed to
be there, and I was assured (ha ha etcetera) that it all was. That was the
point at which I did this backup, which, as I say, was done with some kind
of virtualmin tool, if I remember right. Is there any kind of hope atall?
 
(You know, this was always my favorite part about textdrive - helpful and
patient fellow users. Thanks, y'all.)
 
 
braced for the worst
Hannah
 
 
 
 
 


 

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