[LON-CAPA-admin] Recovering deleted discussion?

Mon Oct 17 13:23:13 EDT 2011

Hi,

No problem, deleted discussion items are just marked as "deleted," they are not really toast.

The interface does not allow to make these items visible again, you would need to pull them out of the db-file. I have some scripts that could be modified to do this, if it's needed. Just let me know.

- Gerd.

On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Neubauer, Paul R. wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> We have a situation at Ball State where it could be important to retrieve discussion items that have been deleted by the course coordinator. 
> 
> Are these discussions just marked as deleted or are they completely gone? Does anyone know whether we can recover them? 
> 
> We do have backups, but I'm not inclined to simply restore and wipe out later data. I'm not sure at this time whether it would be worthwhile to restore the entire system to a new machine in order to get at the discussions and I'm not sure whether doing so would help anyway. Can anyone comment on that possibility?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
> Paul Neubauer
> Sr. Systems Support Consultant
> University Computing Services
> Ball State University
> Muncie, IN 47306 USA
> (765)285-1936
> pneubauer at bsu.edu
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