Re: [cowiki-dev] The coWiki.org page

I would really like to understand why this could happen.  What is 
*necessary* for the end result to be left in the database?  I don't 
believe this can be blamed on ACID or not transactions.  The original 
page should still be there.  I take it that it is not.

Sy wrote:

>On 6/29/05, Vish Vishvanath <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Nah, I'm still here
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>>The backups are now taken once a day of the database and kept on the
>>server.
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>>Despite enquiries in plain english, I have NO IDEA what Sy and DTG
>>are talking about regarding the data loss, none at all.
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>>To be perfectly, I couldn't give a flying toss - unless there's
>>something I don't know, it's not rocket science to rewrite a page.
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>>vv
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>The main page magically reverted to an earlier revision while
>destroying the content and history of the current revision.  This has
>happened a second time since the first report.
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>The page was edited several times over a few weeks and being the
>single most important page on cowiki.org, it was a minor work of art. 
>At the very least, it was a horrible slap in the face to see that work
>vanish.
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>Now, having said that I can go ahead and begin rewriting it.. as they
>say in the wiki world .. I can "be bold" and if something bothers me I
>can go ahead and fix it.
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>I've not done this because I had hoped that it was easy to restore the
>page from a backup and also because I was really depressed about
>losing my work.
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>Now.. the way things look, I'm going to begin rewriting that page. 
>But until this bug is tracked down and fixed, could we please look
>into making the process of restoring a single page a little easier?
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>Actually, if it were possible to have a read-only time-shifted version
>of the server that would solve this problem perfectly.  A secondary
>wiki which is using a data backup from a week ago would probably do
>it.  I know that's easy to say.. is it any easier compared to fishing
>for a single page from a backup?
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