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

Vish Vishvanath wrote:

>> 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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> Ok, I finally got you.
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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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> Yup. Lesson we learn is to do important work like this on personal  
> machines first... Ah well.
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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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> Yeah - that sucks. Fair enough - pain in the arse all round for  
> everyone.
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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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> The database is backed up everyday in the form of a db dumpfile,  
> which makes restoration a damn sight easier than hunting through  
> fsdump files for mysql MYIs and the like.
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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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> Time-shifting in the sense of having a staging server which pushes  
> changes to the live server on command, for example? Quite possible -  
> people come up with ways and means?
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Is it possible to locate in time where the corruption occurs, and then 
get me the backup of before and after?  I would like to look at it 
myself.  I'm sorry though for the work it entails...

Paul