Message Board Software---UPGRADE COMPLETE **Post bugs and questions here**

[Matt]

Hello all!

My vacation is running out and this is a big one on my list.

Obviously it is very important that we keep our board software up to date so we don't end up 20 versions behind. That creates one hell of a time to upgrade anything when the version you are running finally becomes obsolete.

So its not like I HAVE to upgrade but the time will come and I really need to make sure it is done in a timely manner when they come out. I have not upgraded to all the 3.6.x versions because that seems redundant, but vBulletin has now released 3.7.0 and that is one that needs to be done.

I am hoping this will only take me a few minutes but I must close and back up the board while it is in process to make sure we don't lose anything.

The look of the board will not change and I have been assured that all of our major addon's to the site will continue to function properly. The ones I have researched in depth are the CMPS that runs the site pages and our WIKI software that runs all of our catalogs.

I will be taking great measures to make sure none of them are hosed in this process. I will also be taking a full back up so that the site can be restored in case there is a problem.

I know a shit load about this stuff but have never done this so its going to take me being in front of the thing will all cylinders firing at once.

Questions can be posted here.

[Rjeso]

Not a question, but approval of the usage of "hosed".

That is all.

[Jean]

I hereby solemnly approve of, and give my wholehearted support to, anything Matt has already done, is doing, or is going to do in the future

[Rjeso]

Including future uses of the term "hosed"?

[Jean]

above all else

[NeedfulKings]

LOL...hosed. Yeah, that works!

Hey, as long as I keep my Arcade high scores!

Cheers and good luck, Matt!

[Jean]

Hey, as long as I keep my Arcade high scores!

I hope the upgrade is not going to affect our database in any way?

[Matt]

That's the real question there and I think the answer is..."no".

I believe that tables will be added but I don't think that vbulletin removes any, I'm mostly afraid of changing table names.

If it does that I mean

And thanks for the support everyone.

[Jean]

I will also be taking a full back up so that the site can be restored in case there is a problem

that was actually the most important part of the message

[Jon]

Perhaps a dead fish would help.

[Odetta]

we wouldn't want to get hosed

[Daghain]

I'm going to double check that I have all the Towerpedia! articles in Word on my home computer....just in case.

You can never be too careful.

[The Lady of Shadows]

can people who don't live in canada actually say the word "hosed"? isn't it like illegal or something?

3 days to the big upgrade. let's all take a deep breath that day and send goodcomputermind. i have full confidence in matt - it's always the computers that seem to need slapping around. with the aforementioned dead fish.

[Daghain]

Shit. This means I will actually have to work that day.

[Brice]

Noooooooo...anything but that.

[MonteGss]

I'm sure everything will work out fine.

[Matt]

I'm really hoping the entire thing takes like...30 minutes.

So keep checking, I will open it as soon as I'm done with the testing.

[Odetta]

can people who don't live in canada actually say the word "hosed"?

no

[Matt]

EEEKK!

**International Protocol Breech**
**International Protocol Breech**

<---knocks somebody down running out of the room

[Matt]

I am conducting the file back up now off the server.

(not data, that happens right before the board closes)

Anyway, it may make the board a bit slow, my apologies if you experience that.

[Cutter]

Just to note it states 6/16/08 in the banner running across the top of the forums.

[Matt]

Eeek!

Thanks, I'll fix that.

That doesn't bode well.

[Jean]

...And maybe we'll come back,
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

It's the final countdown...

[John_and_Yoko]

One question--am I going to have to save any of my stuff on the forums as insurance, or is that all being taken care of for me?

[CRinVA]

LOL...hosed. Yeah, that works!

Hey, as long as I keep my Arcade high scores!

Cheers and good luck, Matt!

Well losing the Oregon Stranglehold on the Arcade Leaderboard isn't necessarily a bid thing, is it!