[ZODB-Dev] Re: Corrupt db when trying to pack
Gerry Kirk
gerry at faithonline.com
Mon Oct 4 13:45:58 EDT 2004
Tim Peters wrote:
>
> You didn't say which version(s) of Zope or ZODB you're using, but there are
> indeed no known software causes for FileStorage corruption in current
> releases of Zope or ZODB. You should look this over now:
>
> http://zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FileStorageBackup
>
I took a look at that. Very informative.
I'm using Zope 2.7.0 and whatever version of ZODB that comes with it.
>
> For the future, take the recommended practices listed on the link above to
> heart. For example, had you made daily backups all along, repairing
> "impossible" corruption in the first 300MB of a 700MB FileStorage probably
> would have been straightforward.
>
We do a nightly backup of the whole database. How does that make
repairing easier? The only thing I can see doing is to run tests on the
backup each night, to know if there is an issue or not, and deal with it
right away.
- Gerry
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