[sup-talk] Sup not working anymore after abrupt reboot

[Tero Tilus]

Carlos Garcia Campos, 2009-11-13 11:11:
> I don't know whether my ferret index is corrupt, this is the exception  I
> get:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Error occured in index.c:901 - sis_find_segments_file
> Error reading the segment infos.

I'm not familiar with the internals of ferret, but the error looks
pretty bad.  It might have lost part of index data files.  Do you
happen to have index or dump backups or find deleted files under
ferret/ with using undelete tools?

Lessons learned...

Always have regular (automatic, if possible) backups of your index
dump, ALWAYS!  I have sup-dump in my backup2l before-hook.

Hum.  I think for people who don't do cron backups it wouldn't be a
bad idea to create (optional) rotating sup-dumps on every start. (and
stop?)

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