[FM Discuss] AIDR manual missing

Sun Feb 28 11:12:09 PST 2016

Hi there,

I'm sad about this situation as the migration could have been done a lot better with the right time and skills. It just got to a point where we had to turn off the server. 

Let's try to get a situation where we can get at least the text of the manual back and the image files. Firstly offline. 

If you are interested in trying to get an online version back up please let me know and we can move the discussion to the admin list.

Mick on the move. 

> On 28 Feb 2016, at 06:22, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks so much. 
> 
> As mentioned there was a staff change and I am new to this mailing list. Truly I know how thankless migration projects can be. 
> 
> I had previously sent a note to admin for the manual site but had not gotten a response. (re: making the manual not a draft but live). 
> 
> If there is an archive that I can locate data, great. If not, so many lessons learned. 
> 
> Have a good sunday
> 
> Heather
> 
> Heather Leson
> heatherleson at gmail.com
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> Blog: textontechs.com
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:19 PM, mark <mark at aktivix.org> wrote:
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>> Heather, Mike,
>> 
>> I'm sad that this important book has been lost and I hope that it can
>> be recreated. Also I'm sad that when Mick was working hard to recruit
>> people to migrate manuals, making repeated requests for help on this
>> list, none of the AIDR team seem to have got the message. Both these
>> things are unfortunate.
>> 
>> Also, it was not easy to find the source for booktype [1] from the
>> booktype.pro website, which was frustrating to me and I expect others
>> might feel frustrated by that also. Promoting the hosted product
>> without linking the source is not ideal, IMHO.
>> 
>> After some searching I did find this excellent article [2] written by
>> sourcefabric, which I hope will enable others to install booktype and
>> extract manuals from Mick's postgreSQL dump.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype
>> [2]
>> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-publish-books-wi
>> th-booktype-on-debian-8
>> 
>> 
>> Heather Leson:
>> > HI Mick, Can you please advise how we might be able to install
>> > booktype manually and retrieve the content?
>> >
>> > Also I thought we had published the manual but it is unfortunate
>> > that the migration did not include all the books.
>> >
>> > In the meantime, we are reconstructing the manual.
>> >
>> > Heather
>> >
>> > Heather Leson heatherleson at gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog:
>> > textontechs.com
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Mick Chesterman
>> > <mick at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 10/02/16 07:25, Heather Leson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> HI Folks,  We unfortunately don't have a back up of the manual.
>> >> When you did the migration did you back up the data or download
>> >> all the content in epub before doing it?
>> >>
>> >> I tried to locate it on archive.org, but AIDR was not linked to
>> >> the main pages.
>> >> https://web.archive.org/web/20151015134433/http://www.flossmanuals.or
>> g/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> Thank you in advance
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi Heather,
>> >>
>> >> We have a back up of all the 'published' manuals which live at
>> >> http://en.flossmanuals.net
>> >>
>> >> I also tried to locate it on archive.org as that is a good way
>> >> for us to recover a manual in a situation like this.
>> >>
>> >> But it appears that the AIDR manual wasn't published to that site
>> >> and only lived in the Write part of our site.
>> >>
>> >> The difference here is that the text data only lives in the
>> >> database and is tricky to separate out. We have a back up of the
>> >> whole database and data but it would only be useful if you are
>> >> able to install booktype locally to export that manual.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry not to be able to help more.
>> >>
>> >> Mick
>> >>
>> >>
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