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30 From: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>
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32 Subject: DB Corruption
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35 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:48:53 -0500
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53 This email is a gentle reminder to back up your tags unless they are
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54 100% mechanically generated.
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56 Last night, while testing some scripts that do a bunch of "notmuch new",
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57 "notmuch tag" and "notmuch search" commands, I suddenly started getting
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60 "A Xapian exception occurred opening database: Db block overwritten -
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61 are there multiple writers?"
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63 I hopped over to #notmuch and asked for help. ojwb asked for a directory
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64 listing of my xapian directory and informed me my basA and baseB files
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65 were missing. I ended up restoring from a recent dump of the db.
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67 I'm not sure how this happend (I only interact with that directory via
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68 notmuch), but I suppose if it happened to me it could happen to you. So
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