[pmwiki-users] Reverting a PmWiki Site and its History to an Older State

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:10, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:34:22PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > I have set up a PmWiki (0.6.7) Wiki site at
> > http://perl-begin.berlios.de/. However, it was heavily spammed, and as a
> > result, I'd like to revert its state and its history to an older state,
> > when everything was OK, before the spammers touched it.
> >
> > How can I do that? Is there any script that will allow me to process
> > the pages this way?
>
> I'm not aware of any scripts that do this.  AFAIK, this is the first
> time anyone has needed something like this (others have talked about
> "it would be nice to have...", but before now nobody has said "I need...").
>
> Unfortunately, due to the way 0.6.7 stores the page history it
> might not be possible to reliably automatically revert the pages,
> depending on what the spammers have done.
>

Well, I can determine a date-time stamp in which everything was OK, and would 
like to revert all the pages to this exact stamp. Would this be helpful?

> How many pages have been affected? 

Almost all of them.

Is the format of 0.6.x pages documented somewhere, so I can create a script to 
do this?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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