doom9 archiving

is it possible to publish .CHM archive of the forum ?

we're talking several hundred MBs of SQL dump already and in HTML form it would probably get even bigger...

so what ? :D I'm not scared by this, your forum is based on vBulletin, it could be possible to build a converter to CHM format, or a more compact format with a specific viewer, decompresing HTML on the fly and showing in IE5 (in Visual Basic for example) I never see vBulletin database, but all post should be in only one table... with an odbc driver it could be easy to read it. I don't have enought free time to do this but I can start to work on it.

how to backup 

sorry, usernames are not lost, there are in "post" table 'thread' and 'forum' tables are also usefull to reconstruct posts...

Hmm. I am also going to look into this. It would be a hoorendous (sp) task to perform.

Even so, we are unlikely to give you parts of our database. It will be discussed and you will find out in due course.

I can ty to build a win32 tool to convert sql dump of vbulletin in HTML (CHM is another pb) with only 10 or 20 posts provided by the team... do you have some coders in the team ? :D

so easy 

I appreciate your enthusiasm and agree with you that its a good idea. However, if it is to be done, it will be done 'in-house'.