Re: BugZilla *is* loosing comments


Subject: Re: BugZilla *is* loosing comments
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 17:02:09 CDT


On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:25:27AM +0200, Jesper Skov wrote:
> Sam,
>
> This is a big problem. If we can't have faith in the system, it won't
> be used. I for one have stopped using BZ because I've spent so much
> time on it which has apparently just gone down the drain. I don't like
> that... [no, I'm not blaiming you :) Just want you to put this at the
> very top of your list! ]
>
>
> Could it have had anything to do with the full disk the other day?

That's my guess. The bugzilla database should now have plenty of room
to grow, so that shouldn't be a problem.

>
> Do you run backup of the system? If not, I'd suggest doing a DB dump
> nightly. Of course, if the problem is disk space, that's not going to
> improve matters any. Do we need to ask Sourcegear for more diskspace,
> or move some of the services to SF?

We now run a db dump hourly. Bug data is too valuable to loose.

> Finally, may it be worth updating to the release version of 2.12?

We're running a version from about a week before the release. Given
the hassle to hack their code to our system, it's not worth it.
           
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