restoring deleted data
Good morning, I am Zope newbie who used the program in December to build a medium-sized site. I installed Zope on my work computer and did all my development there. When I came in last week, I found that my system administrator had completely deleted my version of zope. Everything was gone - the server, the installation program, the supporting software, ect.... I was just wondering if there was a way to recover any of my code or to restore the site, without re-doing everything. If there is documentation about this on one of the zope sites, feel free to point me to it. Thanks so much! Elyssa ************** It is impossible for us simply to serve soup and provide shelter without crying out that homelessness is a gross injustice and an indictment of a society that has so much and yet will not make available to all persons the basic necessities of food and housing. -Ed Loring, The Open Door Community, Atlanta
First ask your system adminstrator if there is backup or second kick him. On Windows system there is a slight chance to undelete removed data. Google should give you an overview over the existing tools. But this all sounds like you're having bad luck -aj --On Montag, 3. März 2003 10:53 -0800 "Back, Elyssa" <elyssab@fremontpublic.org> wrote:
Good morning,
I am Zope newbie who used the program in December to build a medium-sized site. I installed Zope on my work computer and did all my development there.
When I came in last week, I found that my system administrator had completely deleted my version of zope. Everything was gone - the server, the installation program, the supporting software, ect....
I was just wondering if there was a way to recover any of my code or to restore the site, without re-doing everything. If there is documentation about this on one of the zope sites, feel free to point me to it.
Thanks so much!
Elyssa
************** It is impossible for us simply to serve soup and provide shelter without crying out that homelessness is a gross injustice and an indictment of a society that has so much and yet will not make available to all persons the basic necessities of food and housing. -Ed Loring, The Open Door Community, Atlanta
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When I came in last week, I found that my system administrator had completely deleted my version of zope. Everything was gone - the server, the installation program, the supporting software, ect....
I was just wondering if there was a way to recover any of my code or to restore the site, without re-doing everything. If there is documentation about this on one of the zope sites, feel free to point me to it.
Yikes. Well, unless your sysadmin also made a backup, I'm afraid you're out of luck unless: -- the var/Data.fs file is still around. If you set up an INSTANCE_HOME type installation, this is possible, since the data would reside in a different place than the program. Or maybe the var directory survived by chance in a regular install. If you can find it, all you need do is replace the file of the same name in a new install and you'll be up and running (provided your new install has all the necessary products installed.) -- you can figure out how to do some "undeleting" on your operating system. This is usually difficult, but not impossible. If there hasn't been much activity on that computer, it's likely your old data is still around, though inaccessible. Again, the only thing you need be interested in is Data.fs (and any custom products/external methods you may have developed.) If your OS has no good native facilites for this (most don't) there are third-party programs and data-recovery businesses that can get even heavily deleted data back. -- it is mostly a static site and someone managed to archive it. Good possibilities are Google and Internet Archive (archive.org). This doesn't work unless was publically visible. --jcc
When I came in last week, I found that my system administrator had completely deleted my version of zope. Everything was gone - the server, the installation program, the supporting software, ect....
I was just wondering if there was a way to recover any of my code or to restore the site, without re-doing everything. If there is documentation about this on one of the zope sites, feel free to point me to it.
Yikes. Well, unless your sysadmin also made a backup, I'm afraid you're out of luck unless:
Oh, and also I recommend you skin your sysadmin for wantonly deleting your data. --jcc
At 11:08 AM 3/3/2003, J Cameron Cooper wrote:
When I came in last week, I found that my system administrator had completely deleted my version of zope. Everything was gone - the server, the installation program, the supporting software, ect....
I was just wondering if there was a way to recover any of my code or to restore the site, without re-doing everything. If there is documentation about this on one of the zope sites, feel free to point me to it.
Yikes. Well, unless your sysadmin also made a backup, I'm afraid you're out of luck unless:
What everyone else said, plus: If you're running Windoze (not that I have any reason to suspect you are...) I've used R-Studio as a file recovery tool with great results in the past. It supports not only FAT32, but also trickier stuff like NTFS, ext2, RAID and other schemes. It isn't free, but they do have a demo version that will show you the files you'll be able to recover with the commercial version. When I needed it, it was the best $80 I've ever spent. http://www.r-studio.com/ HTH, Dylan
If everything was deleted, there's not much that can be done. Perhaps you can get the SysAdmin to restore the site from backups. All you really need (assuming you are doing nothing fancy) is Data.fs, the object oriented database that contains all Zope persistent objects. Reinstall Zope and any Products you are using, put Data.fs in the var directory, and you should be in business again. If you used any Python extensions, you'll have to recover them from backups as well. On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Back, Elyssa wrote:
Good morning,
I am Zope newbie who used the program in December to build a medium-sized site. I installed Zope on my work computer and did all my development there.
When I came in last week, I found that my system administrator had completely deleted my version of zope. Everything was gone - the server, the installation program, the supporting software, ect....
I was just wondering if there was a way to recover any of my code or to restore the site, without re-doing everything. If there is documentation about this on one of the zope sites, feel free to point me to it.
Thanks so much!
Elyssa
************** It is impossible for us simply to serve soup and provide shelter without crying out that homelessness is a gross injustice and an indictment of a society that has so much and yet will not make available to all persons the basic necessities of food and housing. -Ed Loring, The Open Door Community, Atlanta
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:53:02AM -0800, Back, Elyssa wrote:
When I came in last week, I found that my system administrator had completely deleted my version of zope. Everything was gone - the server, the installation program, the supporting software, ect....
I was just wondering if there was a way to recover any of my code or to restore the site, without re-doing everything. If there is documentation about this on one of the zope sites, feel free to point me to it.
Everything you did in the ZOpe management interface would get stored in a file called Data.fs. So, search for that. if it doesn't exist, one would hope that your sysadmin has backups stored somewhere... you'd better ask him. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
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