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Trackback devilry again
As reported earlier in Trackback HELL!, trackbacks without serious spam protection are just a big, wet kiss to the spammers.
Updating another site to Drupal 6, I tried to first export the database via phpMyAdmin for backup purposes. Alas, I simply couldn't get the thing to export using .zip; it always timed out. I had to export it without compression – and that made for a slow 71 MB.
Hmm, that seems bizarrely large. Following up on a hunch, I found that, sure enough, this was a site for which trackbacks had been left on and neglected. Spam trackbacks numbered in the tens of thousands.
I emptied the trackbacks_received table, which showed some 157,000 records. And then had no trouble exporting the database using .zip compression.
What did that do to the database size? Uncompressed, it went from 71 MB to 2 MB. Now that's a bit of a difference, wouldn't you say?
So long, trackbacks!
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