[Zope] var/Data.fs: any way to regenerate from scratch?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, J Cameron Cooper wrote:

> >
> >
> >I tried to run the fsrecover.py script on the Data file (a copy of it),
> >and it closes with:
> >
> >exceptions.ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> >
> >So I'm figuring that the Data.fs must be one of the casualties of the
> >crash ...
> >
> >Now, Zope is a new one for me, and really have no idea of what the Data.fs
> >is even used for ... is it something that I can just delete and Zope will
> >just start building it from scratch?  Or is it something that I can
> >regenerate based on information from the file system?
> >
> >I found the following link:
> >
> >http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/CorruptedZODB
> >
> >And tried it, but it made no difference ... from what I read in the URL,
> >it sounds like I'm basically removing transactions, one at a time, from
> >Data.fs ... what does that affect (ie. what am I losing for each
> >transaction I remove)?  how far back can/should I remove?
> >
> >
> The Data.fs contains your entire Zope installation. Everything else is
> replacable.

'K, what is the MySQL backend used for?  (sorry, forgot to mention in my
original post)