[Zope] restoring deleted data

[J Cameron Cooper]

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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....
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>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.
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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