[Labs-l] [IRC - bot] wm-bot outage

Mon May 13 16:06:26 UTC 2013

wm-bot is back as it used to be. Should there be any problem with
anything - poke me on irc, nick petan

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok so after almost 2 days of recovering I am getting somewhere... so
> here is a list of things that were lost and I am unable to recover
> them:
>
> * changes to access lists for all channels since 1. February 2013
> * statistics for all channels where they were enabled since 1. February 2013
> * seen data since 1. February 2013
> * infobot metadata (names of users who created a key etc) (for
> #mediawiki completely gone, for other channels all key data since 1.
> February are gone)
> * configuration changes of all channels
>
> here is the list of things that were somewhat recovered or need
> additional recovery, but where recovery is possible
>
> * list of all removed / added channels since 1. February 2013
> (channels that were added after 1. February have empty access l. so
> should you need to regain access to them, just poke me on irc - petan)
> * infobot data (not including metadata) - raw keys and raw aliases.
> They were preserved thanks to html dumps that live on different
> physical storage. I copied all of them to
> http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/db/backup/ there is a way to convert
> these html dumps back to xml format they are stored in - but it's long
> and painfull. So far I recovered only largest DB of #mediawiki which
> is itself far larger than all other db's together. Given that most of
> other channels contain only few keys, I decided not to recover them.
> You can always copy paste the keys from preserved html back to bot.
> * RC changes
> * RSS changes
>
>
> Right now the bot (wm-bot) is running ONLY with logging module - so
> that it only can log channels, where logging was enabled, all other
> functions are disabled and I am still working on recovery - but it
> /should/ be back fully operational today.
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I got 2 news, one good and one bad
>>
>> Good one is that since today anybody can freely call me idiot as long you want.
>>
>> The bad one is that I /accidentally/ rm -r'ed system folder of wm-bot.
>> That doesn't mean logs are gone, they were in data folder which is
>> unaffected (and backed up every day). System folder contains mostly
>> only configuration and stuff that I would never expect to get
>> accidentally rm'ed, and last external backup I have is 3 months old.
>>
>> So... wm-bot will be down for some time (hopefully max several hours
>> until I manually rewrite all missing configuration files (200+ files)
>>
>> I apologize for all issues caused by this, I will also try to start up
>> some minimal version asap that will only perform the logging of
>> channels.