Well, I’ve spent all weekend uploading, and things are getting back up online quite nicely 🙂
Most of SFC itself is now back up, with the exception of a bunch of the cover scans, and the forums (more on these in a bit). I also got the Shining Force II site back up in time for it’s 7th Anniversary (yesterday), though with all this uploading and sorting out of files, I didn’t have time to add anything special to the site for the day. Still, at least it’s back online, eh? Also got the Final Conflict site up yesterday and will work on getting the Shining Force and Shining in the Darkness sites back up in the next day or two 🙂
By the way, if you’d like to thank SmooveNET for their help in getting SFC back online, there’s a topic at their forums – here – which you can post in. You don’t need to register to post, guest posting is enabled 🙂
Now, on to the forums…
Though the basic files for the forums have been uploaded, and I have the styles, avatars and images etc all ready, there have been some problems restoring the database. As you probably know, I’m on a 56k connection (anyone from British Telecom reading? Please, please, please upgrade the Upwey exchange for ADSL!) so my good friend and fellow SFC Forum Admin, Koshums, backed up the forum database before the site went down (since it’s just over 50MB). Last night he tried to restore it, but unfortunately the restore process didn’t seem to work. He has since uploaded the file to the SFC webspace for me to try to get restored. It seems neither phpMyAdmin nor phpBB’s admin panel is happy to restore from a file on the web 🙁 So, at this moment I am downloading the file via FTP (which isn’t going too badly actually, have been downloading for about an hour, and it’s at almost 50% – I guess it’s faster when I’m getting it direct from the server like that, rather than via the phpBB admin panel). Then I’ll try restoring it from the file on my PC… and if that fails, I shall have to copy chunks of the SQL from the file and manually restore all 50MB+ bit by bit. It might take a while, but I’m doing the best I can for you all 🙂 Worst case scenario, I’m hoping SmooveNET might be able to help somehow…
But, there’s more. Having looked at part of what I’ve downloaded of the database backup so far, I’m not 100% certain it has backed up the details relating to forum modifications, such Gold, the Shop, your item collections etc (basically, anything that doesn’t come with phpBB as standard)… I hope it has, because I know a lot of you will be rather upset at having lost these things, and I can’t say I’ll be too pleased about having to spend several days re-creating all these items and hunting out the original install files for these mods 🙁 But, if I have to, that’s what I’ll do. I hope you can bear with me if that is the case. I won’t, however, be able to offer to restore all your Gold totals/items etc – it will just take far too long on top of all the other stuff, and I’ll have no way to verify the information, I’m really sorry.
Well, maybe it won’t even come to that. As soon as the database backup has finished downloading I shall take a look and see what’s there and what isn’t… here’s hoping!
Will try to get the latest Shining Soul II info posted up here as soon as I get the time 🙂