[CentOS] how to find source of data loss / corruption

2011-12-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi, 2 websites, hosted on 2 different CentOS 5.7 servers (one being very new, about 3 weeks old) keeps loosing data - but it's more like it's corrupted than being deleted. For example, a photo would be uploaded last night and today when we checked it, it doesn't show on the website. So we check i

Re: [CentOS] how to find source of data loss / corruption

2011-12-15 Thread John Doe
From: Rudi Ahlers > For example, a photo would be uploaded last night and today when we > checked it, it doesn't show on the website. So we check if the file is > on the server, and exists but is 0KB in size. Last night it still > worked fine. The photo is 482Kb in size. Only the size changed to

Re: [CentOS] how to find source of data loss / corruption

2011-12-15 Thread anax
Hi Rudi we once had a similar problem on a Web: This Web had this in particular that its home-page needed to be deleted daily and of course reinstalled immediately. Then, in a new version of the Web it did not need this delete/reinstall cycle any more, so the webadmin just removed the link to th

Re: [CentOS] how to find source of data loss / corruption

2011-12-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM, anax wrote: > Hi Rudi > we once had a similar problem on a Web: > > This Web had this in particular that its home-page needed to be deleted > daily and of course reinstalled immediately. > Then, in a new version of the Web it did not need this delete/reinstall > cy

Re: [CentOS] how to find source of data loss / corruption

2011-12-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:29 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: Rudi Ahlers > >> For example, a photo would be uploaded last night and today when we >> checked it, it doesn't show on the website. So we check if the file is >> on the server, and exists but is 0KB in size. Last night it still >> worked fi

Re: [CentOS] how to find source of data loss / corruption

2011-12-15 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 12/16/2011 12:22 AM, Rudi Ahlers piše: > John, > > Where do I get inotifywait ? > > > yum what provides "*/inotifywait" didn't return anything > > > root@mars:[/]$ yum whatprovides "*/inotifywait" > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * base: mirror

Re: [CentOS] how to find source of data loss / corruption

2011-12-16 Thread John Doe
From: Rudi Ahlers > Where do I get inotifywait ? > yum what provides "*/inotifywait" didn't return anything Got inotify-tools from repoforge. JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to find source of data loss / corruption

2011-12-18 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Cool, thanx :) On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 12/16/2011 12:22 AM, Rudi Ahlers piše: >> John, >> >> Where do I get inotifywait ? >> >> >> yum what provides "*/inotifywait" didn't return anything >> >> >> root@mars:[/]$ yum whatprovides "*/inotifywait" >> Load