Disaster_Recovery

Disaster Recovery Notes for zope 2.5

I pushed my zope server too hard, perhaps it got indigestion (refusal to pack the database which kept growing) from the crazy multiple ways I use webdav, perhaps from the incessant upgrade changes to the linux kernel, woody distribution or zope, and zope products, or perhaps a hardware flaw; i don't know but I learned a few tricks

• Make regular backups (that is an old trick, never too late to learn) , some offsite
• use fsrecover.py -p -P0 -v2 Data.fs.corrupted Data.fs.recovered
• to prevent zope database growing out of control, use the following environment al variable in the zope start script: ZOPE_DATABASSE_QUOTA = size_in_bytes
• shut down all webdav connections; davfs, cadaver, web folders
• restart, reboot