Accessing Documents from hard drive after server failure

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Hello,

Is there a way to view the uploaded documents from the drive on the server? The server we were using for opendocman failed. I have the drives, and can access the files, but i don’t see the documents we had stored. My guess is that they are stored in the .dat files. Is there a way to retrieve them? Worst case, can I install the latest opendocman on a different server and just copy the data directory from the old drive to the new space and the files will be available?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Matt

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Hello, the .dat files are the raw files w/o the filename. Each .dat file is named after the file ID of the file in the database.

In order to restore completely, you would need the .dat files and a database backup file of some sort.

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I have also had a crash, but I could not retrieve the.dat files. I have copies of all original documents that I could reload, but is there a way to upload the files again without re-starting from scratch?

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You could technically write a script to do that but nothing included in the software currently would provide that functionality.