Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #826036] zope restore on frontend.savannah

[Karl Berry]

    Please find /root/frontend.savannah.gnu.org.20120719.tgz on the server. 
    That is the closest backup of /var/lib/zope2.10 prior to August 4th 2012
    we have. 

So, I saved the current zope2.10 as -20130519 and unpacked this on
frontend with a symlink, so that we now have:

frontend(50)#$ pwd
/var/lib
frontend(51)#$ lsd zope*
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 28  2009 zope
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   17 May 19 17:39 zope2.10 -> zope2.10-20130519
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 17  2009 zope2.10-20120719
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 17  2009 zope2.10-20130519

Then I ran /etc/init.d/zope2.10 restart.  (Several times, killing old
processes, etc.)

The results were quite mysterious, with the wiki failing to come up at
random times, but anyway, as things stand right now,
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/FrontPage looks like the old (good)
version.  Whether it will persist through a reboot, I can't say.

Any chance of someone else researching how to get plain text dumps out
of zope so we can get to something usable soon?

karl