On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:36 +0800, David Nelson wrote: > Hi guys, > > Sorry, I'm very tardy in replying, I've been absent a few days, and > have been somewhat occupied, as you will learn. I've got some good > news and some bad news for you. > > First, the bad news. After having done some particularly-inspired > configuration work on Alfresco, it came crashing to a halt and died. > This was the admin's human error, not Alfresco's. > > All attempts to fix the problem over the past few days have been > fruitless to date. If anyone is curious and wants to download a backup > of the crashed site, you can get it at [1] - a juicy 759 Mb. It > contains everything from the system: database, file system, the > currently-inaccessible data, etc. > > There is a completely new and working Alfresco installation on > http://alfresco.libreoffice.org and > http://documentation.libreoffice.org, but all user accounts are going > to be have to be recreated.. I will do this as from Friday. > > After that, I'll start rebuilding everything. But I currently have no > assurance of being to recover *any* data. > > Oh, did I mention good news? Again, I should point out that this was > 100% human error and no malfunction of Alfresco's. Alfresco has proven > so far to be extremely stable and reliable on the server, and the > performances are now quite reasonable. This disaster happened in the > same way that a perfectly-working car will drive into a wall if you > point it in that direction. > > Now that the domain names have rolled over to the libreoffice.org > domain, I'm planning to contact the Alfresco project and try and get > them involved as a partner in configuring and customizing the site. > > For the next 24-48 hours, I'm busy and won't be heard much, but I'll > be working on things over the weekend. > > You can imagine how humbly I offer you all my apologies. > > [1] traduction.biz/downloads/alfresco-3.4c.back.tar.gz > > David Nelson >
I am such a packrat that I probably have copies of the latest iteration of every English-language chapter of the LibreOffice user guides (and many of the related files, such as the template, that were in the "other" section) on the recently deceased Alfresco site. Some of those, AFAIK, have not been worked on since I put them there; and the Getting Started chapters are on the wiki and, again AFAIK, have not been modified on Alfresco. If I don't have everything, others might; in particular, whoever last edited a chapter might have a copy on their computer. So if you're unable to recover them from backup, we can probably replace them without too much drama after the folder hierarchy is rebuilt and our user accounts are recreated. This might be a good time to consider keeping a backup set of the working files on the ODFAuthors site and/or the LibreOffice wiki as well, although ensuring those are the latest files would be extra work that might get overlooked. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
