On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:25:50AM -0500, David Huttleston Jr wrote:
Many thanks to Jim and Sean at Zope.com for saving our bacon! Prior to this emergency, we had no contact with Zope.com, we just knew they provided commercial support for Zope. Monday morning we called hoping they could help-- within four hours of our initial contact, we received a 55MB zexp file with all our rescued sites. Boy, were we happy to see two folders called "dev" and "prod".
Lessons learned-- 1) DO NOT export the root directory from the ZMI. Since it includes the controlpanel and such, it can NOT be imported into a running Zope. i.e. It's useless! 2) DO have serveral backups of Data.fs and Data.fs.index One backup recent backup is not enough-- it might fail. 3) DO have backups of your Extensions and Products directories saved with your Data.fs. Without these, versioning problems can make restoring a nightmare. 4) Contact Zope.com if you're outa tricks or outa time.
Happy (and Safe) Zoping to all, Dave
On Monday 29 July 2002 02:18 am, David Huttleston Jr wrote:
I'm in a big bind. During a server upgrade our tape unit ate our backup tape. :( So our Data.fs file is not recoverable. We have an XML export of the root folder of Zope about 300MB), which has everything we need. But, it will not load into our new Zope.
5) NEVER rely on a single backup tape. ";-) -- __________________________________________________ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen reinoud.v@n.leeuwen.net http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __________________________________________________