[Zope] Complete data loss - help please

[P Kirk]

Hi Paul,

Oh fsck! while messing about, I deleted everything in var when I
intended to delete the pid files.

Many thanks.

Patrick

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:48:06PM +0100, Paul Browning wrote:
>
>
>--On 15 July 2002 19:08 +0100 P Kirk <patrick@enterprise-hr.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>As part of an effort to get Zope and Apache playing together, I made
>>some changes to my setup.
>>
>>I moved Zope's port from 80 to 8080 and gave it /tmp/zope.soc
>>as a socket as opposed to just -w 80.
>>
>>Being a bear of little brain, I couldn't make the proxy stuff work.
>>
>>I changed everything back.  And suddenly it was like a fresh
>>installation, with no way to login.
>>
>>Couldn't login at all.  Reran zpasswd.
>>
>>Zope restarts.  I login. My ACL user list is empty as are two test sites
>>I was using to learn zope.  Actually empty isn't the right word - they
>>are completely gone.
>>
>>One of them had a lot of stuff in it I don't have copies of anywhere
>>else.
>>
>>Where is my content gone?  Surely moving port doesn't result in total
>>data loss?  What do I need to do to see it again?
>>
>>Help please!
>
>Two wild guesses:
>
>* Somehow you're looking at the wrong Data.fs (the ZODB is all in this file)
>* Something horrible happened to the right Data.fs - does the Undo tab
> give any clues?
>
>fsrecover and tranalyzer could be your next steps ....
><http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/CorruptedZODB>
>
>Paul
>
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