Hi,
I accidentally deleted all the documents (except design documents) from my
database and I wanted to get them back. I was writing a script in Python using
the CouchDB-python module. I was also doing somethings with curl on the
command line.
CouchDB Version = 2.2.0
Python Version = 2.7
Computer OS = Linux (CentOS 7 package)
In general, I was able to grab a list of the ids through /db/_changes. I would
then get these ids with revs=True and open_revs = 'all', which would return a
list of revision ids and the current revision number. However, I couldn't get
the old document by doing a get request of the ids with rev=previous_revision
number - they would return {"error":"not_found", "reason":"missing}.
I tried putting in an empty document back into the database with by doing a put
request with one of those ids, which went through with a revision + 1. With
that document, I tried doing a get request with the previous revisions and I
could get the current one and the one that was deleted but nothing before that
- they would {"error":"not_found", "reason":"missing}.
The database on Fauxton says there is "just 4 docs and 1255 deleted docs."
Compaction doesn't run on this database (according to /couchip:5984/db/ -
compact_running: false). My understanding was that since these documents
aren't purged and there's no compaction, I should be able to get the document
data with the old revision numbers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Chris
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