[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Fixing Data.bbb

Jim Fulton jim@digicool.com
Fri, 04 Feb 2000 08:31:31 -0500


Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm currently in a quite embarrassing situation.
> 
> A site has been running for about half a year non-stop but now a
> problem arise when I tried to pack the database : there is a corrupted
> record dated 08-08-1999 which makes it impossible to start up the
> database.

I take it that this is a Zope 1.x site?

> I was able to get into a state preceeding that date by running
> fixbbbtt.py,
> but a lot of work has been done since, and the site should even look
> absolutely different by now.
>
> Is there an easy way to fix things, or is the only possibility for me
> becoming an expert in ZODB2 format and doing it by hand ?

There should be a .old file left from the pack that you can 
revert to.

Were you backing up the site?

Jim

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