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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There is no service or application. As I
said the need to do this is very rare and most likely will not be needed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you are running the server as an
application all you have to do is look at the command line and once you see the
text “Server started.” appear the repositories have been cleaned
up.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bruce<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Brad Nesom
[mailto:kidsmake6@msn.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> November 20, 2006 2:47 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">users@mapguide.osgeo.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [mapguide-users] Site
corrupt - MG Server fails to start</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Is there a service or application that
could be checked to see if the cleanup is still running or completed?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Bruce Dechant
[mailto:bruce.dechant@autodesk.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 20, 2006
3:08 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">users@mapguide.osgeo.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [mapguide-users] Site
corrupt - MG Server fails to start</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The files might not actually be corrupt,
but may have not been closed properly (example: due to power outage). When the
server starts it tries to “clean up” the repositories using the
generated log files. Under certain circumstances this can take longer then the
Windows Service Control Manager allows for a service starting up. The thing to
do in this case is to not run the server as a service and instead run it
interactively as an application to give the server time to cleanup the
repository. Once the repository has been cleaned up you can stop the server
application and restart it as a service. Note: that you should not have to do
this under normal operating conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bruce<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Jason Birch
[mailto:Jason.Birch@nanaimo.ca] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> November 18, 2006 9:41 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">users@mapguide.osgeo.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [mapguide-users] Site
corrupt - MG Server fails to start</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Good cautionary tale.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>If anyone is not backing up their repositories, they
should strongly consider it. I haven't seen any problems
yet, but the repositories are file-based and are subject to corruption in the
case of interrupted writes, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>There is a RepositoryAdmin directory in the Server installation
that contains some utilities for doing this, and instructions. You can
find a copy of the isntructions here:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="https://mapguide.osgeo.org/source/browse/*checkout*/mapguide/trunk/MgDev/Server/RepositoryAdmin/MgOpenSourceRepositoryAdmin.pdf">https://mapguide.osgeo.org/source/browse/*checkout*/mapguide/trunk/MgDev/Server/RepositoryAdmin/MgOpenSourceRepositoryAdmin.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hmm. It would be nice if we could leverage an RDBMS data store to
store the repository info. This would kinda break the managed data idea,
but it would eliminate the load balancing problems around session access.
I don't really like storing my data with the site configuration info anyway :)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Jason<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Andy Morsell<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sat 2006-11-18 12:14 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">users@mapguide.osgeo.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [mapguide-users] Site
corrupt - MG Server fails to start</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I
have no idea how this happened, but it is rather disconcerting. Luckily it was
only the Site data that was a problem and that my Library seems to be fine.
Otherwise I would be reaching into my backups to restore from.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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