[Mediawiki-l] Lost pages

Graham tolliver at dal.ca
Fri Sep 10 12:03:00 UTC 2010


  Hello Platonides,

I have been alerted that our backups of the database hadn't been 
working, which explains the database issue. However, why pages would 
disappear is a mystery. No maintenance scripts were run.


Thanks,
Graham
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On 09/09/2010 8:46 PM, Platonides wrote:
> OQ wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Graham<tolliver at dal.ca>  wrote:
>>>   Hello,
>>>
>>> Does anyone have some input regarding this issue?
>> There may be a bug that eats data, but since it's 1.11, there wont be
>> much impetus to find out and absolutely none to fix it.
> AFAIK that shouldn't have happened. Much less disappearing from the backups!
> Note that Wikipedia did run 1.11 at one time, so a random file
> disappearing is really odd but without being able to view the wiki
> and/or database, there's little to investigate from here.
> Did you run some maintenance script which could have affected the
> revisions (eg. compressOld.php, deleteOldRevisions.php)?
> Were you using external storage? Maybe if it was externally stored, and
> the ES server went down... But the entries at page and revision tables
> should still be there...
>
>
>
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