Hi, Here is some documentation. Please note that getting Sessions up and running on a mirror is extremely difficult and is not recommended. Instead, use Custom tracks, back-up the data, and manage the data using the "cleaner" utility.
http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQcustom http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#CustomTracks http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#Sessions Each has other links that will take you into the wiki system for more details, Jennifer ------------------------------------------------ Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group ----- "Davide Cittaro" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "Davide Cittaro" <[email protected]> > To: "Jennifer Jackson" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2009 11:41:08 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: [Genome] genome browser bug and rollback? > > 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
