Instiki users - Jan 2006 - [Instiki] Everybody''s dead dave, they''re all dead. - Help, instiki just killed my wiki

AAAARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!!!!!

Pardon me.

My wiki just completely disappeared. I have no idea why. There is no
longer anything in Storage.

Is there anything i could have done which would have told instiki to
kill everything with out me realising what i was doing? and are there
any backups held anywhere? I thought they were in storage but it''s
empty.

The last time i used instiki i don''t think i ^C ed it at the command
line, but i''ve forgotten to do that before and it hasn''t
killed
EVERYTHING. And i just don''t get why the backups instiki seems to make
regularly would be gone.

I''m just kinda hoping that there is something big and obvious that i
have overlooked, but there probably isn''t :(

Thanks for listening to my sad tale. Any pointers would be very much
appreciated.
Paz y amor,
-rjs.

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Hi Robin,

I assume you''re on Instiki 0.10.x or earlier. Normally Madeleiene (the
Instiki backend) keeps snapshots in the storage. Each snapshot file
has a complete set of data at the time it is taken The .command_log
files are incremental changes from the last snapshot, which will be
deleted after a new snapshot is taken. This is considered the backup,
are never deleted from within Instiki, and there is no other place
these are kept.

Besides the really clueless "are you looking at the right directory on
the right drive", I can think of anything that would force it to
delete all those files. SOMETHING must have recreated the storage
directory. Could it have been an external issue? Info on Instiki
version, OS, how you run etc might help.

Cheers,
Assaph

On 2/1/06, Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com>
wrote:
> AAAARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!!!!!
>
> Pardon me.
>
> My wiki just completely disappeared. I have no idea why. There is no
> longer anything in Storage.
>
> Is there anything i could have done which would have told instiki to
> kill everything with out me realising what i was doing? and are there
> any backups held anywhere? I thought they were in storage but it''s
> empty.
>
> The last time i used instiki i don''t think i ^C ed it at the
command
> line, but i''ve forgotten to do that before and it hasn''t
killed
> EVERYTHING. And i just don''t get why the backups instiki seems to
make
> regularly would be gone.
>
> I''m just kinda hoping that there is something big and obvious that
i
> have overlooked, but there probably isn''t :(
>
> Thanks for listening to my sad tale. Any pointers would be very much
> appreciated.
> Paz y amor,
> -rjs.
>
> --
> DO NOT SEND ME WORD ATTACHMENTS - I *WILL* BITE!
> <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html>
>
> Hit me: <http://robin.shannon.id.au> [broken]
> Jab me: <robin.shannon at jabber.org.au>
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<http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/breezy/>
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G''day

I''m using Kubuntu 5.10 (a modern Debian based linux distro) on an
oldish i686 laptop and instiki 0.10.2

Anyway, somehow instiki seems to be back and working. (it didn''t
matter how many times i killed and started it again in the terminal
emulator inside konqueror, but when i restarted konqueror altogether
it appeared to magically come back to life - i got no idea)

Anyway. Yep you were right. I WAS looking in the wrong directory. I
was looking at the storage created by an old (test) wiki that i had
deleated hence why there was nothing in it. bollocks. Sorry for
wasting everyone''s time. I still don''t understand why it had
the hissy
fit before, but am pretty sure it was knoqueror rather than instiki
which was mucking up.

Paz y amor,
-rjs.

On 01/02/06, Assaph Mehr <assaph at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> I assume you''re on Instiki 0.10.x or earlier. Normally Madeleiene
(the
> Instiki backend) keeps snapshots in the storage. Each snapshot file
> has a complete set of data at the time it is taken The .command_log
> files are incremental changes from the last snapshot, which will be
> deleted after a new snapshot is taken. This is considered the backup,
> are never deleted from within Instiki, and there is no other place
> these are kept.
>
> Besides the really clueless "are you looking at the right directory on
> the right drive", I can think of anything that would force it to
> delete all those files. SOMETHING must have recreated the storage
> directory. Could it have been an external issue? Info on Instiki
> version, OS, how you run etc might help.
>
> Cheers,
> Assaph
>
> On 2/1/06, Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > AAAARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Pardon me.
> >
> > My wiki just completely disappeared. I have no idea why. There is no
> > longer anything in Storage.
> >
> > Is there anything i could have done which would have told instiki to
> > kill everything with out me realising what i was doing? and are there
> > any backups held anywhere? I thought they were in storage but
it''s
> > empty.
> >
> > The last time i used instiki i don''t think i ^C ed it at the
command
> > line, but i''ve forgotten to do that before and it
hasn''t killed
> > EVERYTHING. And i just don''t get why the backups instiki
seems to make
> > regularly would be gone.
> >
> > I''m just kinda hoping that there is something big and obvious
that i
> > have overlooked, but there probably isn''t :(
> >
> > Thanks for listening to my sad tale. Any pointers would be very much
> > appreciated.
> > Paz y amor,
> > -rjs.
> >
> > --
> > DO NOT SEND ME WORD ATTACHMENTS - I *WILL* BITE!
> > <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html>
> >
> > Hit me: <http://robin.shannon.id.au> [broken]
> > Jab me: <robin.shannon at jabber.org.au>
> > Upgrade to kubuntu linux:
<http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/breezy/>
> > Faith is under the left nipple. -- Martin Luther
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Instiki-users mailing list
> > Instiki-users at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users
> >
>
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