Excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of vie nov 13 12:10:17 +0100 2009: > Carlos Garcia Campos, 2009-11-13 11:11: > > I don't know whether my ferret index is corrupt, this is the exception I > > get: > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Error occured in index.c:901 - sis_find_segments_file > > Error reading the segment infos. > > I'm not familiar with the internals of ferret, but the error looks > pretty bad. It might have lost part of index data files. indeed, I have had to build a new index scratch. > Do you > happen to have index or dump backups or find deleted files under > ferret/ with using undelete tools? No :-/ > Lessons learned... > > Always have regular (automatic, if possible) backups of your index > dump, ALWAYS! I have sup-dump in my backup2l before-hook. Yes, I have a daily cron script for it now. > Hum. I think for people who don't do cron backups it wouldn't be a > bad idea to create (optional) rotating sup-dumps on every start. (and > stop?) > Thank you very much. -- Carlos Garcia Campos PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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