[Mulgara-dev] unable to restore live database from backup

[Andrae Muys]

On 15/04/2008, at 2:53 AM, Russell Uman wrote:
> is there anything i can to do get more information on what's failing?
>
> is there anything i can to do attempt to recover the broken backups?

I'm not convinced the backups are broken, but is it possible for me  
to look at one of them?  I'm happy to log into a dmz box to take a  
look if you don't want me poking around your production server or  
making your data public :).

> is it possible that this is related to the NPE we get trying to use  
> the
> backup ITQL command while the server is running, and there's some kind
> of corruption in the live datastore?

Looking at the error message you are seeing I doubt it.  The -1 at  
the bottom of the error message indicates the server isn't  
recognising the model URI - I suspect both the backup and the restore  
are fine, it's just the current model-URI handling code is tripping  
up.  This has been a rich source of bugs in the past, and I suspect  
it's biting us again.

But I would still like to check that it isn't the backup - so if you  
are able to arrange for me to have access to it that would be great.

Andrae

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Andrae Muys
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Senior RDF/Semantic-Web Consultant
Netymon Pty Ltd