Rod.

First, thank you for being the leader in forum software.  I've been using IPB since the beginning, and it's great.

The biggest concern I have is ensuring my database is always available.  I have 13+ years worth of forum data, and when performing upgrades, installing hooks, etc, I'm always concerned about corrupting the db.  Yes, I have backups, and I've had to restore from backups.  Unfortunately restoring from a backup can take several hours.

The biggest feature request I have is ensuring my data is available.  Perhaps it's possible to somehow take db snapshots?  What if there was a second database that got replicated every night, which would at least provide one good backup daily.  You could only go back 1 day, with just a few clicks.  I'm not a programmer, however this is just a feature request that I think would be beneficial to many.  Not sure how you would design such a system, but certainly would be nice.

Keep up the good work!
 

Thanks again.

Any idea when the backup service will launch?  I've been looking for something like this for years!  Rather than having to perform regular mysqldump's, this method would be so much easier.  I am really looking forward to a live automated backup solution such as this, as my database has 12+ years worth of posts and is very important to my site.  

Thanks.

Hi,

i'm considering buying another forum which has been online since 1997, and has 2.7 million posts.  It runs on vB 3.7.3.  If I buy the forum, I would want to convert it to IPB.  Would it be possible to convert a forum that large?  If so, how long would it take to convert?

Thanks.

I greatly dislike the fact that I have to keep updating my forum with the latest tapatalk code.  I would much rather my members use the IPB app, however tapatalk unfortunately does a better job -- what I'm being told by my members. 

Are there any plans to create a better IPB app that is more comparable to tapatalk? If so, once it's available I'll gladly remove all tapatalk code. Until then, I'm stuck with them.

Thanks.