wm-bot is back as it used to be. Should there be any problem with anything - poke me on irc, nick petan
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > ok so after almost 2 days of recovering I am getting somewhere... so > here is a list of things that were lost and I am unable to recover > them: > > * changes to access lists for all channels since 1. February 2013 > * statistics for all channels where they were enabled since 1. February 2013 > * seen data since 1. February 2013 > * infobot metadata (names of users who created a key etc) (for > #mediawiki completely gone, for other channels all key data since 1. > February are gone) > * configuration changes of all channels > > here is the list of things that were somewhat recovered or need > additional recovery, but where recovery is possible > > * list of all removed / added channels since 1. February 2013 > (channels that were added after 1. February have empty access l. so > should you need to regain access to them, just poke me on irc - petan) > * infobot data (not including metadata) - raw keys and raw aliases. > They were preserved thanks to html dumps that live on different > physical storage. I copied all of them to > http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/db/backup/ there is a way to convert > these html dumps back to xml format they are stored in - but it's long > and painfull. So far I recovered only largest DB of #mediawiki which > is itself far larger than all other db's together. Given that most of > other channels contain only few keys, I decided not to recover them. > You can always copy paste the keys from preserved html back to bot. > * RC changes > * RSS changes > > > Right now the bot (wm-bot) is running ONLY with logging module - so > that it only can log channels, where logging was enabled, all other > functions are disabled and I am still working on recovery - but it > /should/ be back fully operational today. > > > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, I got 2 news, one good and one bad >> >> Good one is that since today anybody can freely call me idiot as long you >> want. >> >> The bad one is that I /accidentally/ rm -r'ed system folder of wm-bot. >> That doesn't mean logs are gone, they were in data folder which is >> unaffected (and backed up every day). System folder contains mostly >> only configuration and stuff that I would never expect to get >> accidentally rm'ed, and last external backup I have is 3 months old. >> >> So... wm-bot will be down for some time (hopefully max several hours >> until I manually rewrite all missing configuration files (200+ files) >> >> I apologize for all issues caused by this, I will also try to start up >> some minimal version asap that will only perform the logging of >> channels. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l