Re: HELP!!!

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox@gunnar.cc>]

Erik Manning wrote:
> 
> Tonight, I was managing my ring, activating new sites and removing
> invalid ones, when suddenly everything stopped working and I
> received the following error message in my browser:
> 
> "Can't open
> /usr/local/www/virtual/anewperspective/webring/data/themering/ring.db
> No such file or directory"
> 
> Sure enough, when I logged into my FTP and checked the data
> directory for this ring, six files were missing:
> addmail.txt
> addpage.txt
> codepage.txt
> htmlcode.txt
> ring.db
> sites.db
> 
> Why would all of these files suddenly disappear?  I can understand
> if the two .db files got deleted due to corruption, but why would
> the .txt files also disappear?
Erik,
A few other Ringlink users have reported similar occurrences to this
list. It seems to have happened when they removed sites. About a week a
go it hit me that this _could_ be caused by an execution error in
combination with the way the code fore removing sites was designed. For
that reason I changed the code, see
http://www.gunnar.cc/ringlink/mailarc/msg01176.html
> Is there any way to restore these files?  My last backup was a
> couple of weeks ago, and I've had a lot of new submissions since
> then.  Is all lost?
I'm afraid it is, if your provider can't help you with more recent
backup copies.
I'm sorry about this, Erik. It's a reminder to you, as well as everybody
else who read this, how important it is to take backup copies often.
And _if_ my theory described above is correct, and if you upgrade to
version 1.12, this kind of accident should not happen again. But the
need for backup copies will still be there... ;-)
/ Gunnar