QuakeDev.com downtime and request for archival

[Chip]

[apolluwn]

[Chip]

Now that's detailed. But, as LH is not familiar with servers, I'm sure someone with server access could do it, or someone with FTP access could upload a copy of phpMyAdmin and dump an SQL backup.

Indeed, a database backup could be big, but in this case, I'm sure it's not bigger than 64MB.

Anyway, this should be done pretty quick.

[Spirit]

Whatever is done, please keep the privacy and security implications of a full database dump in mind. There will be private messages inside. Passwords, hashes, mail address, names and so on.

[LordHavoc]

[raptore]

[Baker]

Anyone have a current URL for any mirror of the Quake Expo sites?

[LordHavoc]

[Baker]

I'm sure those would be quite a bit of work to try to get back online and a major time consumer . Annoyingly, it appears that Quake Expo 2001, 2005, 2006 are not in archive.org.

http://qexpo.quakedev.com/ ... http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http:/ ... kedev.com/
http://qexpo2005.quakedev.com/ ... http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qex ... kedev.com/
http://qexpo2001.quakedev.com/ ... http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http:/ ... kedev.com/

The 2003 Quake Expo site is in archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/200310090619 ... qexpo.com/
And obviously the 2008 and 2010 sites exist: http://qexpo.tastyspleen.net/ http://expo2011.quakewiki.net/

[Spirit]

They are archived at archive.org but because the domains currently serve no permitting robots.txt archive.org will not display them. I am uploading my 2001 and 2005 mirrors, not sure where/if I got an qexpo. one.

[Spirit]

Crap, my mirrors were done incompetently and would require some work to make them usable. http://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/qe ... kedev.com/
Should not be too hard but I have other interests. Can provide tarballs if someone wants them. Those were "wget -m"ed I guess, unfortunately without better options.

[leileilol]

Didn't FrikaC dvdburn every qexpo?

[Baker]

FireFox switched my default search engine to Bing and I accidentally used Bing for a search.

It had the 2006 Quake Expo front page (without CSS) in the cache.

I tried to see if other Quake Expo pages might be cached by Bing, but I quickly discovered it really isn't very good for searching.

[Sure Chrome is a better browser than FireFox, but I don't really want megacorps running the whole internet ...]

[noobish]

If this is still something everyone would like back online, I could host it (with svn as well). I have a small hosting business and I would be willing to run it for donations only. Looks like a squatter might be on the domain name (it's up in January), so might have to pick a diff one.

I would need to know how big everyone's archives (uncompressed) are for planning purposes.

[Spirit]

And who are you to be trusted?