Hi Jennifer On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Jennifer Jackson wrote:
> Hello, > > If you have a back-up of the server that you store the database on, your DBA > should be able restore an older copy. If you only have the input files, they > will need to be reloaded. When this type of thing happens where (we had a bad > server and lost all of the Session data earlier this year), the data was just > lost. We definitely recommend keeping copies of the input files in a central, > backed-up, location if they are critical to a project. This is true for data > loaded into the UCSC browser or into a local mirror. > I also recommend to keep data on an alternate location and just load tracks when needed. Unfortunately there are users with hundreds of tracks that need to be reordered once loaded. > For the "why" concerning the loss of all custom track data, not just the > subset of missing server data, I will follow up with our developers. If > anyone did a cart-reset, that would clear custom tracks. Maybe this was done > when you deleted the old data? Of if the cleaner script was run, that would > remove it all, too. AFAIK they were only browsing data (hgTracks) BTW, is there some documentation about how session and user contents are stored? d /* Davide Cittaro Cogentech - Consortium for Genomic Technologies via adamello, 16 20139 Milano Italy tel.: +39(02)574303007 e-mail: [email protected] */ _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
