SOS: need help restoring backup. Node does not exist error

[maruthir]

Hello,
I have an SOS situation i have fought over for last 4 days. Due to data loss.. I am having to restore the repository. I restored the database and the alf_data folder and now alfresco refuses to start with the below error coming up. I even turned on FULL reindexing but it does not get till the point of starting re-indexing. It had authentication chain configured for passthru and I have even tried commented it out. Incidentally the node id refereed to here c56d9d41-38ae-4eea-adc1-d5be838b59b8 is not in the alf_nodes table. Wonder where this is coming from. I need to be able to recover as much as I can.

This data is really critical to restore and bring up the alfresco installation. I will be thankful for any assistance. I have googled and also searched in this forum but dont find a solution.

Thanks,
Maruthi

06:15:53,522  DEBUG [linkecm.audit.LinkecmAuditServiceImpl] onBOOTSTRAP
06:15:53,724 User:admin DEBUG [repo.jscript.ScriptLogger] Group:LINK_ADMINISTRATORS
06:15:53,756 User:admin DEBUG [repo.jscript.ScriptLogger] Grou Node:Node Type: {http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}authorityContainer, Node Aspects: [{http://www.alfresco.org/model/system/1.0}referenceable]
06:16:00,226 Userystem INFO  [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised Repository Web Script Container (in 6252.125ms)
06:16:00,227  ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.InvalidNodeRefException: Node does not exist: workspace://SpacesStore/c56d9d41-38ae-4eea-adc1-d5be838b59b8
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.getNodePairNotNull(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:142)
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.db.DbNodeServiceImpl.hasAspect(DbNodeServiceImpl.java:902)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor236.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:307)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)
        at org.alfresco.repo.tenant.MultiTNodeServiceInterceptor.invoke(MultiTNodeServiceInterceptor.java:104)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
        at $Proxy7.hasAspect(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor236.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.alfresco.repo.service.StoreRedirectorProxyFactory$RedirectorInvocationHandler.invoke(StoreRedirectorProxyFactory.java:215)
        at $Proxy8.hasAspect(Unknown Source)
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.MLPropertyInterceptor.getPivotNodeRef(MLPropertyInterceptor.java:321)
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.MLPropertyInterceptor.invoke(MLPropertyInterceptor.java:161)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.NodeRefPropertyMethodInterceptor.invoke(NodeRefPropertyMethodInterceptor.java:198)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.alfresco.repo.node.NodeRefPropertyMethodInterceptor.invoke(NodeRefPropertyMethodInterceptor.java:198)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)

[jonash]

At first glance, the error seems to be caused by a customization to your Alfresco repository. (linkecm.audit.LinkecmAuditServiceImpl)

Try disabling this extension (clean alfresco.war without AMPs and no customizations in the extension/ folder) before restarting. This way you should be able to perform a full reindex.

[maruthir]

After lot of research..i finally found an elaborate way to recover files from a broken alfresco repository even where indexing fails and alfresco wont come up. It involved writing a custom script. If anyone runs into this problem do contact me on maruthi at leviossa dot com