[Pan-users] Re: Wha hoppena my data??

[Duncan]

Beartooth posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
below,  on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:28:37 -0500:

> Pan started refusing to post things; then suddenly most of the posts I had
> refrained from  purging are gone, from group after group. And the few that
> aren't gone are ancient of days.

What kind of filesystem are you running on the partition that PAN's data
is on?  Have you fscked it recently?  That sounds like a potentially very
sick filesystem to me.

The other issue if you are running PAN-cvs (which it doesn't appear you
are, but...) might be an instability there.  IIRC, that happened once to
me with a beta, some years ago.  The current stable and "beta" releases
are several years old at this point, however, and have tested pretty
stable during that period, so it isn't likely to be an issue with them.

If the posts you had refrained from purging were valuable enough to keep,
you had backups, correct?  (Of course, if you are talking about gmane's
list/groups, you should be able to retrieve them from gmane once again, if
necessary, once you get your filesystem issues or whatever worked out. 
Unfortunately, that means retrieving everything you've already read once
again, and deleting the posts you didn't think worth saving, once again,
but that's what backups are supposed to help prevent!)

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