ShadowKyogre

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ShadowKyogre

Fri, 27 Dec 2019 20:00:38 -0800

#StarWars - I watched Episode 9! It wasn't as bad as the reviews implied. But I could definitely see why people said it felt like they were trying to cram two movies in one. Director had to cram a lot of setup for the plot threads he wanted in the movie. I did like that they played around with the Force aspects more in this movie, though.

ShadowKyogre

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:38:26 -0800 last edited: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:14:25 -0800

!Hubzilla Support Forum - I just got started with the hubzilla network. I have a few questions that I'm not sure if they fall into Development or normal user support. Here's the list.

Recently, I've had to reset the database on my selfhosted instance. But now there's a duplicate channel listing in the public directory when restricted to local directory listing. How do I fix this without deleting the channel on my end that has the duplicate entry? This happened when I cleaned the database and forgot to hit delete on a channel.

Removing a recreated version of channel, then deleting it doesn't fix the phantom entry in the public directory, only the added duplicate. Said phantom entry is @The Ephmeral Eternity . Clicking on this entry results in a 404 since the channel doesn't exist.
When migrating photos, the status posts for them break and cannot be edited. However, re-uploading the photos to the new primary hub reloads the comments on there after another comment is made. Why do the comments look up the associated file by filename, but not the status posts? Am confused.
Then there's the articles. I noticed those don't federate unless I open them and hit save. They're also not saved with the channel exports. Is there an easier way to get the articles synced across copies?

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hEARt PhoniX

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 11:46:54 -0800

ShadowKyogre

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:02:04 -0800

Ah, that explains it. I must've confused syncing with federation. The reason is I noticed when I ask hubzilla to clone a channel from another hub, it imports the wikis and other items fine sans for the images and articles (which require manual saving).

In other words, previous posts with hub reliant data can't be corrected to account for the move. And it's necessary to clone the content in the case of a hub move.

I think that answers both 2 and 3 pretty well.

Andreas Walter

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:53:46 -0800

Hi, I learned that there is an app (as admin you are able to install, and then again as user). There you can define a timerange. All not federated content created in that timerange will be copied from the named hub to that where the app runs.

ShadowKyogre

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:04:56 -0800

Content Import, if I recall correctly? It was able to copy most things save for images and articles.

El Dorado

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:09:24 -0800

The content_import addon can be used to mirror content which otherwise can cause memory issues. This was the only way we could migrate these things, and includes photos and articles and your posts going back to the beginning if you've been around for several years. When used along with the standard channel export it should give you a complete working mirror of the channel on another server. Otherwise the standard channel export mirrors a few months of posts and no articles and no photos/files.

ShadowKyogre

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:19:01 -0800

Curious - is it normal for content to collide in duplicates when that's done? Going to try content import again to test file mirroring.

ShadowKyogre

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:26:37 -0800 last edited: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:29:23 -0800

@Mike Macgirvin - Tested again. Yeah, I'm not sure what it is, but content import doesn't seem to be copying in the nonfederated content.

Way am doing it is by setting base url to this server (without specifying channel in URL), then checking off both import posts and import cloud storage.

El Dorado

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 20:53:21 -0800

As for #1, every channel "pings" the directory once a month to tell the directory it is still here. If it fails to do so, it will be removed from the directory. So eventually these things will get cleaned up.

ShadowKyogre

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 21:11:49 -0800

Phew, that's good to know. Almost thought I accidentally polluted the channel namespaces by that. Thanks!

ShadowKyogre

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 21:31:37 -0800 last edited: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 21:35:57 -0800

@Mike Macgirvin - BTW, I got the debug error about why the content import isn't working. It says there's no API response from zotum when it tries to export an item. I visited the API endpoint in my browser and I'm able to get the data from there.

El Dorado

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 23:05:15 -0800

That needs troubleshooting. Content_import is actually quite complex - it loads a list of things to migrate and then starts a new shell to transport each of them to avoid exhausting memory. It might need smaller chunks for the 'items' (posts, articles, etc.) which we grab 500 at a time iirc. You can test this by exporting files/photos only and see if that succeeds. If it does, we'll probably have to reduce the chunk size for items.

ShadowKyogre

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 09:43:49 -0800

@Mike Macgirvin - Exporting files/photos only fails. Also increased server memory limit, still fails. What does work however is the hzfiles addon for importing the files. Found it a bit strange, but, it worked.

Got paid hosting as Yule present, shot self in foot

ShadowKyogre

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 22:52:09 -0800

Yup, totally true. That's why my other mirrors accidentally don't have image descriptions. Imma try to suppress the repeats while getting content back up.

ShadowKyogre

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 22:55:45 -0800

And done. Things should be fixed now.

ShadowKyogre

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 22:43:18 -0800

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ShadowKyogre

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 16:56:44 -0800

https://medium.com/regenerative-narrative/first-published-on-huffpost-02-13-2017-88490fe1b09e

ShadowKyogre

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:57:03 -0800

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