Mailing List Archive: The Mystery gets darker.

The Mystery gets darker.

May 8, 2004, 1:56 AM

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The Mystery gets darker.

Now OurAnswer (the wiki) works fine... except that it
had forgot all the changes in the last 2 weeks. That
is about one week before the site went down.
www.ouranswer.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Recentchanges

There wasn't much done, but it is worrying. What has
happened? How can something like this happen? Can it
be a malicious attack? We had set up a respond to Bush
page which had gathered three comments. So the work of
four people was lost.

The pages that were created are also not stored in the
new pages:
www.ouranswer.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Newpages

Any idea on what could be the possible cause?
Pietro

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Re: The Mystery gets darker. [ In reply to ]

brion at pobox

May 8, 2004, 2:24 AM

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Pietro Speroni di Fenizio wrote:
> Now OurAnswer (the wiki) works fine... except that it
> had forgot all the changes in the last 2 weeks. That
> is about one week before the site went down.
> www.ouranswer.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Recentchanges

The last edit I see is dated April 30, that's only about one week.

Considering that your server has had some other radical changes going
on, I'd suspect your provider has restored your database from a week-old
backup. You'd better ask them for details of what they've done and why,
and if the more recent files are still available somewhere.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Re: The Mystery gets darker. [ In reply to ]

js at dune2

May 8, 2004, 2:42 PM

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On Saturday 08 May 2004 11:24, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Pietro Speroni di Fenizio wrote:
> > Now OurAnswer (the wiki) works fine... except that it
> > had forgot all the changes in the last 2 weeks. That
> > is about one week before the site went down.
> > www.ouranswer.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Recentchanges

better you do backups next time! this can be done in a very easy way:

here is a short script, which can be run from the server or from your
localhst. it will save the current mysql-db and save it into one file.

#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -h xyz.sourceforge.net --password=a9d33qX --add-drop-table -u xyz
xyz > mysql_backup_`date +%Y%m%d`.dump
ls -la mysql_backup_`date +%Y%m%d`.dump

this can be done every day with a cron job or whatever ;-)
joachim

>
> The last edit I see is dated April 30, that's only about one week.
>
> Considering that your server has had some other radical changes going
> on, I'd suspect your provider has restored your database from a week-old
> backup. You'd better ask them for details of what they've done and why,
> and if the more recent files are still available somewhere.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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