[Building Sakai] Critical issue: 'file upload' questions

[Daniel Merino]

This happened to us several months ago.

If I remember well, /tmp/ is completely deleted each time that server is 
rebooted and also it has some daemon that deletes files (but not 
directories) older than a configured date.

We also left /tmp as default in sakai.properties. It was our fault, but 
IMHO there should be a warning pointing that property to be changed

Fortunately, we stored tmp too in our backups, so we could restore it 
and copy the files to another folder.

Hope it helps.
Best regards.

El 17/04/2013 11:21, RAUL SANCHEZ VEGAS escribió:
> Hi
>
> We have a critical issue with the 'file upload' questions. We have lost
> all the uploaded  files from the 'file upload' questions.
>
> This is our sakai.properties configuration where we chosed to upload
> student files to the file directory system instead of storing them in
> the database.
>
> #samigo.answerUploadRepositoryPath=/tmp/
> samigo.sizeThreshold=512
> samigo.sizeMax=20480
> samigo.saveMediaToDb=false
>
> The default directory where files are stored is /tmp/ as defined on
> param: "com.corejsf.UploadFilter.repositoryPath".
> Every uploaded file using the 'file upload' questions is stored in a
> directory path like:
>
> /tmp/jsf/upload_tmp/assessment81216/question120458/email at domain.es/FileName.ext
>
> The critical issue is that we have lost all files but the directory
> paths still exist.  For example, files like 'FileName.ext' have been
> lost but the directory paths
> (/tmp/jsf/upload_tmp/assessment81216/question120458/email at domain.es/)
> are still there.
>
> So, does anyone know why all files has been lost but directories are
> still there? Does anyone know if files of 'file upload' questions are
> stored in other place like the administrator resources?
>
> I will appreciate a lot if anyone can help us.
>
> Regards
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