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Apr 9, 2004, 8:54 AM
juanl
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Crash! Restore Data?
My Links 2.0 ate my database!

Ok, so I've read several articles on the subject, and have downloaded my backup files fromthe baackup folder. I then renamed the files and posted them into the data folder, but to no avail. What am I doing wrong? My data is still missing.

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Apr 12, 2004, 4:53 AM
Andy
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Apr 12, 2004, 4:53 AM
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What exactly did you do? (step by step). You probably just missed something out.

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Apr 12, 2004, 12:30 PM
juanl
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Apr 12, 2004, 12:30 PM
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While peforming a Build, I inadvertently clicked another link. This stoped the build and resulted in the error that deleted my links data.
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Apr 13, 2004, 1:18 AM
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And what ideas have you tried to restore the data?

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Apr 13, 2004, 7:39 AM
juanl
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Apr 13, 2004, 7:39 AM
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Oh, sorry. So far I've tried uploading a backup of the links database (see above). But I was unsucessful and am wondering if I did it the wrong way. I used an ftp program to download the files (acsi), renamed them with the .db extension, and uploaded them again.

Nothing changed. Are there any materials on how to import existing data, or maybe a step by step of restoring from backup?
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Apr 14, 2004, 9:06 AM
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Apr 14, 2004, 9:06 AM
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Check your categories back-up file. Mine backs up to category.db but the actual data file is categories.db. If yours does the same make sure you rename the back-up file correctly.

Also check that your back-up links.db file has some data in it and it's not 0Mb. If it is, try and find one from a later date.

To correct the back-up problem open nph-build.cgi and find:
Code:
("$db_script_path/data/categories.db", "$db_script_path/backup/$date.category.db")

and replace with:
Code:
("$db_script_path/data/categories.db", "$db_script_path/backup/$date.categories.db")
Apr 14, 2004, 9:52 AM
juanl
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Apr 14, 2004, 9:52 AM
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My categories.db does back up as category.db, and I did rename it and upload it to the /data/ folder along with links.db (renamed), and email.db (renamed). The links.db file is plenty big to have the full data set from before the crash, but I'll double check.

The two lines of code you provided above are the same. Is that a mistake?
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Apr 14, 2004, 10:14 AM
juanl
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Apr 14, 2004, 10:14 AM
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Ok, I don't know what I did, but now the links are appearing. I checked the data through the administrator, and the files seemed ok. So I did a build and the catagories populated. This is awesome. I'll let you know if I have other problems, but I think it's ok.

Smile
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Apr 14, 2004, 11:34 AM
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Apr 14, 2004, 11:34 AM
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The two lines of code you provided above are the same. Is that a mistake?

Look closer. one ends in $date.category.db and the other $date.categories.db

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Apr 14, 2004, 12:00 PM
juanl
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Apr 14, 2004, 12:00 PM
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Actulay, I did a Build All, and the Catagories repopulated themselves. The actual category listing was not damaged in the initial crash, so the Build All repopulated them with links.

I think that's it Smile
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