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From: Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc@gnome.org>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] Sup not working anymore after abrupt reboot
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:22:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258204741-sup-4254@charmaleon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258109288-sup-5579@tilus.net>


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Excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of vie nov 13 12:10:17 +0100 2009:
> Carlos Garcia Campos, 2009-11-13 11:11:
> > I don't know whether my ferret index is corrupt, this is the exception  I
> > get:
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Error occured in index.c:901 - sis_find_segments_file
> > Error reading the segment infos.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the internals of ferret, but the error looks
> pretty bad.  It might have lost part of index data files.

indeed, I have had to build a new index scratch. 

> Do you
> happen to have index or dump backups or find deleted files under
> ferret/ with using undelete tools?

No :-/

> Lessons learned...
> 
> Always have regular (automatic, if possible) backups of your index
> dump, ALWAYS!  I have sup-dump in my backup2l before-hook.

Yes, I have a daily cron script for it now. 

> Hum.  I think for people who don't do cron backups it wouldn't be a
> bad idea to create (optional) rotating sup-dumps on every start. (and
> stop?)
> 

Thank you very much. 
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-14 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-13  9:11 Carlos Garcia Campos
2009-11-13 11:10 ` Tero Tilus
2009-11-14 13:22   ` Carlos Garcia Campos [this message]
2009-11-13 11:57 ` Gaute Hope

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