Our repository randomly wiped every and all setting again over the weekend.
- Is this stored on the database or the file structure
- Can this be restored?
On Friday there was a tiny wipe where it turned off remote administration on its own.
Tiny update, power management and plugin configuration was all intact so it was only the “Repository Configuration” settings.
That’s strange. I’m not sure what would cause it to be wiped like that. Out of curiosity, are you still running MongoDB on a 32 bit system? Even if you are, I wouldn’t expect that to be a reason for data to get wiped like that, but that being said, there can be unexpected results using a 32 bit system.
The settings are stored in the database, so if they were wiped, the only way they could be restored is if you were running a backup database.
Hmmm. Yes to 32 bit. Maybe it doesn’t ‘commit’ the changes to disk on a regular interval? Now that I think long and hard, our file server was restarted at some point on Friday. Maybe that was the event that killed it. I can’t say for certain whether or not something was rendered successfully after the reboot on Friday.
With mongo there is definitely a window of time (albeit pretty short in ‘real’ time) where there could be lost changes if the server dies unexpectedly. This is vastly improved with the use of Journaling, which is on by default in the 64-bit version that everyone should be using [evil glare].