chuckebaby

Bflat5

Basseman
HI:)
 
I can remember, there is Software which can download a whole website....
 
Bassman
 

That kind of web downloader can grab certain files from web pages, but you can't use them to install the forum software or download the database. That would be a huge security hole if it was that easy.
 
Hopefully the Cakewalk guys will see this and seriously consider it.

This software can down load probably the whole forum if you have the disc space.
https://www.httrack.com/
 
Seeing as the text on this forum is only HTML it shouldn't take up that much space.
 

I use that software. It used to be a lot better than it is now. However, I'm not interested in downloading 1000's of html pages, but I would like to keep this forum alive to be able to search for specific topics and also allow people to ask questions... Carry on as normal basically.

Bflat5

chuckebaby

Bflat5

Basseman
HI:)
 
I can remember, there is Software which can download a whole website....
 
Bassman
 

That kind of web downloader can grab certain files from web pages, but you can't use them to install the forum software or download the database. That would be a huge security hole if it was that easy.
 
Hopefully the Cakewalk guys will see this and seriously consider it.

This software can down load probably the whole forum if you have the disc space.
https://www.httrack.com/
 
Seeing as the text on this forum is only HTML it shouldn't take up that much space.
 

I use that software. It used to be a lot better than it is now. However, I'm not interested in downloading 1000's of html pages, but I would like to keep this forum alive to be able to search for specific topics and also allow people to ask questions... Carry on as normal basically.

Im sorry, I thought in your OP you were asking for someone to back up the database (this forum).
There's your tool to back up the database.
 
If your looking to join another Cakewalk forum there is already 2 large ones just started up from users of this site.
Google is your friend.
 
Best regards
Chuck

Cake/Gib to hand over the database with user's info in it would rais all sorts of privacy/legal issues. I have developed a few forum systems in the past. If I could find the time, I might set something up to crawl the forums and harvest all the publicly available data i.e. threads, posts user, names etc. and make it searchable but no personal user data/accounts. You would have to re-register to the system I built to interact with that. However, it's probably a pointless exercise anyway as I suspect, whether we admit it or not, we will all gradually lose interest in Sonor and the forum will gradually become a graveyard. Or the forum may stay here for ages.
 
There is WayBackMachine, but all the forum posts won't be on there. https://web.archive.org/web/*/cakewalk.com

chuckebaby

Bflat5

chuckebaby

Bflat5

Basseman
HI:)
 
I can remember, there is Software which can download a whole website....
 
Bassman
 

That kind of web downloader can grab certain files from web pages, but you can't use them to install the forum software or download the database. That would be a huge security hole if it was that easy.
 
Hopefully the Cakewalk guys will see this and seriously consider it.

This software can down load probably the whole forum if you have the disc space.
https://www.httrack.com/
 
Seeing as the text on this forum is only HTML it shouldn't take up that much space.
 

I use that software. It used to be a lot better than it is now. However, I'm not interested in downloading 1000's of html pages, but I would like to keep this forum alive to be able to search for specific topics and also allow people to ask questions... Carry on as normal basically.

Im sorry, I thought in your OP you were asking for someone to back up the database (this forum).
There's your tool to back up the database.
 
If your looking to join another Cakewalk forum there is already 2 large ones just started up from users of this site.
Google is your friend.
 
Best regards
Chuck

No, I'm not looking for another forum, but to simply keep this one going. Perhaps the head honchos at Cakewalk will allow me to have this forums SQL database so I can import it to a fresh forum install. Everyone already a member here will have the same access. The only difference would the domain name, which I would buy and host on my own server.
 
httrack can't download a SQL database. That would require a username and password to access the SQL server. If it were that easy I'd imagine there would be a lot of problems for many sites.