Re: [Phpwiki-talk] help?

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

> That's exactly what happened. I hadn't looked at the wiki in 10 very
> busy days, and the server was set to delete such unused /tmp files.
> Honestly, sincerely, this wiki is a truly good thing, which truly,
> really and truly again could use some better documentation on how to
> install and configure it.

lame.  if your isp is clueful make then find an undelete utility for
your server and try and they should be able to restore a version of it.

but you *HAVE* to do this really really soon or the disk blocks where the
file was stored may get over written.  it may also be impossible as on
some unix's /tmp is a ram drive and then there really is nothing to
recover (it will probably work if the server was linux, it probably won't
if the server is solaris).

lesson?  never trust anyone to do your backups.

> I was able to retrieve off of a single hard disk cache one of my main
> files. I definitely lost some stuff, which my ISP is trying to track
> down from deleted files, though apparently there is some risk of
> screwing things up more.

check google (and maybe other search engines) for cached copies.  you
might be lucky.

> My co-author and I are planning a visual guide to nutrition. The wiki
> seems like a good tool to help us to put it together. (Security is
> obviously a concern...) She's terrific, and he had a good meeting,
> despite my missing (gaping hole, the ocean swallowed it up, the earth
> is coming to an... okay, okay) content.

good luck!

adam.