[Xymon] Reversing the effects of a 'bb 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME TEST"' command

[Ryan Novosielski]

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On 03/03/2011 01:54 PM, Jonathan B. Horen wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan B. Horen <jbhoren at alaska.edu
> <mailto:jbhoren at alaska.edu>> wrote:
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>     !@#$%
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>     I've never been good a dealing with the aftermath of purple alerts,
>     and always end-up using brute-force to remove all hostname
>     references in $XYMON/data. But this time I really screwed-up and ran
> 
>     bb 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME TEST"
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>     for the purple-affected hosts... and now I can't get 'em back!
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>     I need help/suggestions/advice
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>     TIA!
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> Forget any mention of "purple".
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> How do I reverse the effects of the aforementioned command? In other
> words, how do I undo a "dropped" test?

With a good backup, if I'm not mistaken. I believe the drop command gets
all of the data removed from disk.

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