Cleaned obsolete stuff
I cleaned up some things now obsolete – and removed a bit too much: the WP23 contained the BC2008 blog… A good thing I back-up the database daily so tonight I’ll try to restore it in the WordPress database. Just the sql files needs to be adapted and that cannot be done on VMS *record size exteds the RMS capacity of 32K) ; so I’ll copy the file to one of the Ubuntu boxes and do the update there. Hopefully, that will work.
I do have a backup of the whole database anyway, worst case I’ll have to rebuild it from the ground up. But that’s an excercise I’ve done before.
It turned out not too bad, in the end. Using the umpfile of the daily backup job, taken just before the database was upgraded, contained all the data but it needed to be edited. The only way to process this 20Mb file was moving it to Maya – the Ubuntu laptop – and process is using VIM. Quite some work if you’re not acustomed to this editor….
I was able to extract just that part of the dump (Of course, I loaded the data into the WordPress database (minort change in the file :)), moved it over to Diana and sourced in in MySQL; Changed the database in the configuration – and the Bootcamp 2008 blog is back online!
System disk backup incomplete
In tthe prelude to this excercise, I found the backup’ed systemdisk could not be mounted:
%MOUNT-F-INVALIDSCB….
Pushed the question onto ITRC with an explanation how it may have happened: Lost connection to the rpocess running the BACKUP image; and although it seemed to continue, it didn’t, appearantly, since the error is the result of a non-complete image backup. So I’ll have to redo it….
I thought it might have been solved by rebooting Diana, and for that reason, I installed the latest patch; It required a reboot anyway.
The system started – but it seems there is a slight problem; The registry was started (weird) of would it have been SAMBA that caused the warning? And there is a potential pool expansion problem…
To be looked at tomorrow.