[daisy] PDF Books are Imageless: "IBEX: Illegal character inpathat index 18"

[Caleb Callaway]

Good info, thanks! I managed to piece together most of my data from old
back-ups and external sources, so fortunately it wasn't a huge act of
re-creation. I count it a lesson learned.

-Caleb

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[mailto:daisy-bounces at lists.cocoondev.org] On Behalf Of Marc Portier
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:46 PM
To: Daisy at outerthought.net :open source CMS - general mailinglist
Subject: Re: [daisy] PDF Books are Imageless: "IBEX: Illegal character
inpathat index 18"



Caleb Callaway wrote:

> In a fit of fatigue-induced frustration, completely removed Daisy and 
> re-installed. Problem: didn't run the backup utility first.
> 

ouch,

when you finish re-installing I'ld advise to run the backup tool on a
regular basis (i have a script calling it from logrotate daily, kinda puts
my mind to rest there, I can send it to you but don't have a clue on how to
do something similar on a windows box)

> I have a copy the whole Daisy installation, but I'm guessing that 
> without the contents of the MySQL databases, I'm pretty much screwed. 
> The only thing that looked like it might have potential is the 
> "blobstore" directory in the RepoData. Is it possible to extract my 
> documents from there, or do I have a lot of typing ahead of me?
> 

depends on how many data you had there... (asking you to make a rough guess
is only rudly cruel I'm afraid)


what the blobstore holds is this:
- all versions of all parts of all documents (without help on guessing which
of those are tied together, that and any custom field data is in the mysql
you're missing)

provided you succeed in retrieving all content back from you blobstore (on
linux a commands like 'file', 'find' and grep could at least help you
detemine which blobs are of which content-types: html, images, specific xmls
for navs or bookdefs)

you could try to add them one by one again, and would then need to
- provide the metadata to them from memory
- check all links between docs because all of them will have gotten new
document-ids so links, image-refs and document-includes will be bogus


sorry for not having better news,
-marc=
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