config.root

[Michael Hellesen]

Dave,

I've been getting errors with config.root during the nightly backup operations.  It hasn't been able to sucessfully back it up in a week or more.  The size of the file in Guest Databases is over 700 megabytes. 

I attempted to do the filemenu.savecopy("c:\\config.root") command and got this error.

Can't save the database because there was an error packing "config.river2.feeds.http://feeds.pheedo.com/appleinsider.calendar.2001 Internal database error: attempted to read a free block.  Try to Save a Copy and relaunch with the new database

I checked in c:\ and there is no copy of config.root so I'm assuming the backup didn't happen. 

(I'm willing to let it go like this since River2/Blork still works just fine but I think if config.root gets much bigger it will be bad.)  I hope this is enough information.  If not please let me know what more I can give you.

Mike

[Dave Winer]

If you address your mail list queries to me then if someone else can
help they might not -- it's human nature. Better to just "ask the
list."

[Dave Winer]

You should make a copy of config.root right now using the file system.

More advice later today...

On Monday, May 30, 2011, Michael Hellesen <mike.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Mike Hellesen]

Copied.  Left running with the original copy until I receive further orders.  Catching some z's till then.

Mike

[Dave Winer]

Here's what you do...

http://frontiernews.org/2011/05/30/when-one-of-your-roots-crashes/

Please everyone bookmark this page. Someday you'll need it. (If you're
running a server.)

Dave

[Michael Hellesen]

Thanks!

Followed all the steps in the howto.  There were a couple of errors in the root so I had to jettison two entries.  Both were rss feeds so no big deal.

After running the savecopy the size came down from over 750MB to around 160MB so that's a definite improvement.  I got it all copied and everything seems to be running smoothly.  I'll post a note after tonight's backup runs.

Thanks a lot for the detailed walk-through, much appreciated.  I'll definitely keep the page bookmarked.

Mike

[Dave Winer]

Right on.

Glad to finally get that howto out there.

Dave

[Dave Jones]

Added this one to the how-to list: http://outline.southernbread.org/iWantTo .

Dave