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[God]

Any chance we'll lose the whole MB in this database prune or whatever you're doing? If so I need to backup my PMs. If not I don't want to bother wasting that much time and effort.

[Agent Proto]

I think it's very possible that might occur, but I have no idea. If you feel the need to backup your PMs, I would probably recommend doing so in case we do lose the whole MB in the database prune.

[Leeza]

I backed up some of my PM's...just to be on the safe side.

[Daryl]

Better be safe than sorry.

[Flying Mullet]

Is this part of a hosting move or just a pruning?

[Yamaneko]

Yeah, I'm kind of confused on that part.

[ShlupQuack]

We're changing hosts because this one just has too many ads that we have no control over; too many instances of talking ads, porn ads, and ads that put spyware on your computer. We're backing up the database, but it all could be lost anyway. I'm not sure how much they plan on moving to the new server versus starting with a clean slate though.

[crono_logical]

We're not pruning PMs or users etc., so it's not that sort of clean slate database prune, but feel free to back up anything important to yourself anyway, you should be doing that anyway, I'd have thought *is not backing up any own PMs* I have full recent database backups anyway if something does mess up, although there's no reason why that should happen normally.


EDIT: I like how we all say different things Since I'll be the one actually moving the database (partially due to having the fastest connection), I'm making sure everything moves before threads get pruned