While playing arround with the WebDAV features of Zope I attempted an update of the Zope package because certain upload features didn't work. To make a long story short, what happened was this: by re-installing Zope I accidentally deleted the entire contents of this site. Gone. The file containing all the data (/usr/local/www/Zope/var/Data.fs) had irreversibly vanished!

I actually felt sorry for myself for quite a while. (And I normally never have any real pity with people asking me how to recover lost data. I just answer "Easy! Just install the backup and you're good to go!") But of course, there was no backup of the precious Data.fs (actually there was, but it dated back to October 5th!)

Luckily I had made a backup of this blog here (on December 17th), so all the blog entries up until then have been fully restored, including comments. But of course, the entries about Sam's birth etc. were missing. Google to the resuce! Its bot had visited tomster.org on December 20th(!) and the cached front page gave me the missing entries! Alas! All the comments of all the people welcoming Sam are gone! I have no way of retrieving them (Google doesn't seem to have them, either...) If anybody of you has got them hanging around somewhere in some cache, please, let me know!

Of course, all the rest of the site now lays in ruins... And, what's worse, so does the nearly-finished Plone site I had been working on for a client! Here the backup is luckily not quite as old, but still, there will be lots of work to clean that mess up!

On the bright side: I've taken the opportunity that this clean cut represents and updated from plone 1.0.5 to Plone 2.0RC2! Of course, this means more work in re-establishing the two lost sites (there have been significant changes between the two versions...) but hey! At least WebDAV is now working like a charm!

I think I need a drink...