The long-awaited StackExchange Beta 7 is now in place (StackExchange is the software used to run this website, SQLA).
I can see some funky GUI issues, possibly having to do with my out-of-date copy of FireFox 3, not as bad on IE8. Here's the part I care about, I'll keep you posted as I find out more...
That was quick...
Well, it looks like it's all there... one zip file, 27 XML files and (sigh) 27 XSD files: 520,961 sqla-20100224075334.zip 2,886 Badges.xsd 1,933 CloseReasons.xsd 2,738 Comments2Votes.xsd 2,559 FlatPages.xsd 2,230 Messages.xsd 1,758 MessageTypes.xsd 3,649 ModeratorMessages.xsd 3,201 PostComments.xsd 4,341 PostHistory.xsd 1,766 PostHistoryTypes.xsd 7,821 Posts.xsd 3,479 Posts2Votes.xsd 1,752 PostTypes.xsd 891 SchemaVersion.xsd 1,777 Settings.xsd 2,178 SystemMessages.xsd 2,617 Tags.xsd 2,293 ThemeResources.xsd 2,160 ThemeTextResources.xsd 2,143 ThrottleBucket.xsd 3,037 UserHistory.xsd 1,766 UserHistoryTypes.xsd 8,880 Users.xsd 1,914 Users2Badges.xsd 2,332 Users2Votes.xsd 1,752 UserTypes.xsd 1,752 VoteTypes.xsd 37,800 Badges.xml 896 CloseReasons.xml 23,226 Comments2Votes.xml 12,673 FlatPages.xml 108,433 Messages.xml 1,896 MessageTypes.xml 64 ModeratorMessages.xml 210,998 PostComments.xml 731,441 PostHistory.xml 2,640 PostHistoryTypes.xml 594,204 Posts.xml 382,151 Posts2Votes.xml 457 PostTypes.xml 121 SchemaVersion.xml 375 Settings.xml 61 SystemMessages.xml 22,503 Tags.xml 2,570 ThemeResources.xml 4,448 ThemeTextResources.xml 14,605 ThrottleBucket.xml 504,804 UserHistory.xml 4,338 UserHistoryTypes.xml 58,914 Users.xml 24,313 Users2Badges.xml 58 Users2Votes.xml 708 UserTypes.xml 1,948 VoteTypes.xml Does anyone wanna play "OpenXML"? |
Well, it so happens we're also using a Stack Exchange instance - the site is still in private beta at this stage - and we badly needed to import all content into our SQL Anywhere 11 database... So here's a script for you: |
The blog post you reference isn't there any more and I don't see a direct link to the backup data.
How can we grab a backup now?
I'm wondering also if this would work for a new StackExchange beta like IT Security.
@Neal: Only an "Administrator" of sqlanywhere.stackexchange.com can request an export. Things have changed since Feb 24, and one of those things is that SQLA 2.0 is going to take over from this website, and so they are the (only) ones who are receiving the export files.