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Gallery updates, one disaster after another

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Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on November 27, 2006 11:48:32 AM

Saturday night I thought it was about time to update the Gallery software, so off we go to try and get an update.

Two late nights later I've totally lost, blown away the original Gallery and possibly lost some Forum posts (apologies to everyone.) But the Gallery is back up (for me and the other two that browse to it?)

I love Gallery, but this continuing problem with updates is beginning to be frustrating. Of course, one of the frustrations is my continual lack of know-how for doing the upgrades properly (which isn't helped by only having one site where I've got the software.) Since the site's been hacked a number of times previously, we're really into upates now and better this pain than the whole site going down badly from being hacked.

The last major problem again my fault as I moved from version 1 to version 2 pre-betas. This problem was somehow related to the integration between Xaraya and Gallery2 which wouldn't work after I updated Gallery2 2.1 to Gallery 2.2 svn. I needed the svn update of Gallery so I can update the code readily and I was previously using the CVS version.

  1. Gallery 2.1 cvs updated to Gallery 2.2 svn
  2. Gallery2/Xaraya Integration module would not configure (no matter how much time and cpu I gave it)
  3. No error messages were shown, but it would not configure.
  4. Gallery2 2.2svn full new install configures properly with Xaraya

What did we lose ? Mostly data, because the photos are sane. But that data made the place more interesting.

The photos, albums aren't in the same place they were last time, so the earlier photo links do not work properly. The album names and descriptions are zapped as well, so although I was able to recover the original structure before the blow-away, they don't really mean much even in context.

I would look at putting the photos up @ flickr.com or zooomr.com but haven't quite got those fixed up yet.

And now, it's too late to be putting up any of the images I've snapped in the past week because we're closing down to pack for Tonga.

Steps to minimise further problems in the future.

  1. Name Album Folders descriptively
  2. Name photos with the description details
  3. Hierarchy like crazy (done)
  4. Backup files before updates
  5. Backup database before updates
  6. install on temp directory for testing
  7. install on temp database for testing
  8. install xaraya on temp database for testing
  9. install xaraya on temp for testing
  10. (8 & 9 seem to have been the key factors in this week's horror)
  11. Do not do the install/update over the week-end (or at least if you plan on having a busy Sunday, like usual)

Hope to see you after the jump, and hopefully I can get in on the imagery from Tonga too? (here's to slow bandwidths and immesurable patience.)

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