[mapguide-users] Site corrupt - MG Server fails to start

[Jason Birch]

Good cautionary tale.
 
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.
 
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:
 
https://mapguide.osgeo.org/source/browse/*checkout*/mapguide/trunk/MgDev/Server/RepositoryAdmin/MgOpenSourceRepositoryAdmin.pdf
 
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 :)
 
Jason

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From: Andy Morsell
Sent: Sat 2006-11-18 12:14 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-users] Site corrupt - MG Server fails to start



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.

 

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