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

[RAUL SANCHEZ VEGAS]

Hi

Now we know what's happened. We have already changed the directory. 
Unfortunately we haven't made any backup of the /tmp/ directory.

Thanks a lot for the information.

Regards,
Raúl

El 17/04/2013 12:21, Steve Swinsburg escribió:
> Yes, /tmp/ is volatile and its unfortunate that the default was set as 
> that. It's since been changed to a directory that is not /tmp/. 
> However if you've lost files you'll need to restore from a backup to 
> get those files back.
>
> See
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20458
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-662
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1548
>
> regards,
> S
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Daniel Merino 
> <daniel.merino at unavarra.es <mailto:daniel.merino at unavarra.es>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <http://email@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/
>     <http://email@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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