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

[David Adams]

Honestly, the fact that Samigo puts files anywhere in the filesystem rather
than in CHS is a bug. Has that been filed in JIRA?

David Adams
Director, Systems Integration and Support
Virginia Tech Learning Technologies


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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>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
>> >
>> > 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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