nan in bogofilter stats

[Stephen Davies]

Thanks David. I shall set up a similar cron job.

The zero count does not seem to come from a missing .MSG_COUNT but from an 
explicit entry such as:

.MSG_COUNT 276248 0 20090322

How can this come about?

Cheers,
Stephen

On Monday 06 April 2009 21:09:52 David Relson wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:45:10 +1030
>
> Stephen Davies wrote:
> > Over the past couple of weeks, I have had several recurrences of this
> > phenomenon of the good count going to zero (bogofilter 1.2.0 and db
> > 4.6).
> >
> > This is despite switching to transaction mode.
> >
> > How do you do your backups? Can one simply run bogoutil -d to do this?
> >
> > Why does the count go to zero?
> >
> > Cheers and thanks,
> > Stephen
>
> Hello Stephen,
>
> For backup, I run "bogoutil -d" as a nightly cronjob and then keep a
> week's worth of the resulting text files.  That provides extra security
> in case something goes wrong while I'm off-site for a few days.
>
> The count going to zero could be caused by database corruption that
> resulted in the loss of the .MSG_COUNT token.  If "bogoutil -d" doesn't
> show the end of the alphabet then your database got truncated.
>
> HTH,
>
> David



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