Hi Andi,
Thanks for your quick answer.
restore
recovery
.. those 2 words are really confusing
the Recovery didn't worked at all whatever files removed or not. (here
must be a bug somewhere I guess).
Can I help tracking it ?
To be able to restore It took me time, tests and nerves before
understanding that the file to use with the -r option was
binary_backup.tgz (I even unsuccessfully tried to targz existing *.db
and DB* files...)
Ok so finally the binary_backup.tgz + -r option did the trick and I
think I get now everything back in order.
Now here are some questions :
- is the binary_backup.tgz file saved at each closing time ?
- why is chandler so sensible with closing without properly quitting ?
(I already had some prbs with this before)
Shouldn't it only store in database on commit and wait for new
modifications ?
- What is this weird concept of environment around the database that can
be corrupted AND impossible to recover ?
- Am I wrong If I say that :
RECOVER = restore database environment
RESTORE = restore database from backup
?
- If I want to be sure to backup my data, important files in the profile
are :
- *.db and DB* (raw data)
- binary_backup.tgz (backup to restore)
- no use to save database environement thus recover doesn't always
work and no important data in it ?
Again big big thank first for you work on chandler and then to help me
with my crash problems.
I think I know better how to be sure not to lost my chandler data and
that's nice feeling.
Paul
Le 11/08/09 16:59, Andi Vajda a écrit :
>
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Paul Girard wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am a happy user (for some months now) of Chandler.
>>
>> Today my macbook badly stopped (end of battery without suspend) without
>> closing properly chandler.
>>
>> And now Chandler doesn't start.
>> It gets an exception from recovery : RepositoryRunRecoveryError
>> (see complete error trace below)
>>
>> Ok now what ?
>> I tried to copy paste my profile folder from this morning backup but
>> change
>> nothing...
>>
>> I think my database isn't corrupted since it's from backup and since
>> I was
>> doing nothing when the crash happened.
>> Would that be a recovery bug ?
>> Could I bypass recovery process and try access to current database ?
>
> Recovery doesn't recover data files, it recovers the 'environment'
> used by Berkeley DB. The error you're seeing is saying that this
> environment is corrupt. If you run recovery, you're rebuilding this
> environment, possibly recovering some data that hadn't yet been
> written to the actual data files.
>
> As always, backing up your __repository__ directory before any such
> operations, especially after a hard computer crash, is strongly
> recommended.
>
> You can run recovery with the -R command line flag. What's somewhat of
> concern here, though, is that it should have attempted recovery
> automatically...
>
> If that fails, the next thing to attempt is deleting the __db.00?
> files and the log.00000000?? files from your __repository__ (these
> so-called environment files) and run recovery again.
>
> When you do a repository backup (using the relevant menu or the
> --backup option) only your *.db and DB_* files are actually backed up.
> When then running restore (using -r), recovery is run for you. In
> other words, if you know that you have a good repository backup
> archive around, you can start chandler from it, telling it to restore
> that backup with -r (yes, this overwrites your current __repository__
> directory, back it up first).
>
> See chandler --help for a list of all command line flags.
>
> And, repeating myself, before attempting any of this, just to be sure,
> make a complete copy of your __repository__ directory in case
> something goes wrong.
>
> To find the correct location of your __repository__ directory see
> http://chandlerproject.org/bin/view/Projects/ProfileDirectory, that
> directory is in your profile directory.
>
> Andi..
>
>>
>> Chandler is great but if it can't manage the database properly, it's
>> suicidal to put all my info in there !
>>
>> Please tell me that actually it's a minor problem, that my data are
>> safe and
>> that chandler will... please..
>>
>> Thanks for your help, I like chandler and I hope this is just a bad
>> "joke".
>>
>> Paul, python web-dev using django
>>
>>
>> ps: I couldn't connect to IRC channel ...
>>
>> Seconds since last error: 4
>> Chandler Version: 1.0.3
>> OS: posix
>> Platform Type: darwin
>> Platform Details: Darwin-9.7.0-i386-32bit
>> Architecture: i386
>> Python Version: 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb 6 2009, 19:02:12)
>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)]
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/Chandler.py", line
>> 101, in main
>> return realMain()
>> File "/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/Chandler.py",
>> line 80,
>> in realMain
>> app = wxApplication(redirect=redirect, useBestVisual=useBestVisual)
>>
>> File"/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/release/site-packages/wx/_co
>>
>>
>> re.py", line 7901, in __init__
>> self._BootstrapApp()
>>
>> File"/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/release/site-packages/wx/_co
>>
>>
>> re.py", line 7498, in _BootstrapApp
>> return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
>>
>> File"/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/application/Application.py",
>>
>>
>> line 377, in OnInit
>> options)
>> File
>> "/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/application/Utility.py",
>> line
>> 1102, in openRepositoryOrBackup
>> view = openRepository(options, repoDir)
>> File
>> "/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/application/Utility.py",
>> line
>> 1071, in openRepository
>> view = initRepository(repoDir, options)
>> File
>> "/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/application/Utility.py",
>> line
>> 685, in initRepository
>> repository.open(**kwds)
>>
>> File"/Applications/Chandler.app/Contents/Resources/release/site-packages/chandl
>>
>>
>> erdb-0.7_37-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/chandlerdb/persistence/DBRepository.
>>
>> py", line 970, in open
>> raise RepositoryRunRecoveryError, recover
>> RepositoryRunRecoveryError: True
>>
>>
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