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  "title": "Comments rise from the ashes",
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  "html": "<p>Well, that sucked.  I managed to get an all but complete dump of my <code>comments.db</code> file with <code>db_dump</code> on my server, but then nothing would parse or load that file after that.  Banged around with it for awhile until I finally realized how to parse the dump file myself with a perl one-liner and rebuilt the comments DBM file that way.</p>\n<p>Immediately after that, I migrated everything to <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MySQL\">MySQL</a>.  Not a silver bullet, but it seems a better idea than relying on those DBM files.  They seemed neat &amp; clever at first - but now that I have a bit invested here, they're an annoyance.</p>\n<p>I think I managed to recover the last few comments I got while things went wonky, but if I happened to miss one of yours, I'm sorry.  I'm glad I recovered the comments, though, because I tend to think that comments left here are often more valuable than whatever dross I may have spewed in the first place. </p>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>shortname=ooobef</p>\n",
  "body": "<p>Well, that sucked.  I managed to get an all but complete dump of my <code>comments.db</code> file with <code>db_dump</code> on my server, but then nothing would parse or load that file after that.  Banged around with it for awhile until I finally realized how to parse the dump file myself with a perl one-liner and rebuilt the comments DBM file that way.</p>\r\n<p>Immediately after that, I migrated everything to <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MySQL\">MySQL</a>.  Not a silver bullet, but it seems a better idea than relying on those DBM files.  They seemed neat &amp; clever at first - but now that I have a bit invested here, they're an annoyance.</p>\r\n<p>I think I managed to recover the last few comments I got while things went wonky, but if I happened to miss one of yours, I'm sorry.  I'm glad I recovered the comments, though, because I tend to think that comments left here are often more valuable than whatever dross I may have spewed in the first place. </p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\nshortname=ooobef\r\n",
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  "summary": "Well, that sucked.  I managed to get an all but complete dump of my comments.db file with db_dump on my server, but then nothing would parse or load that file after that.  Banged around with it for awhile until I finally realized how to parse the dump file myself with a perl one-liner and rebuilt the comments DBM file that way.\nImmediately after that, I migrated everything to MySQL.  Not a silver bullet, but it seems a better idea than relying on those DBM files.  They seemed neat & clever at first - but now that I have a bit invested here, they're an annoyance.\nI think I managed to recover the last few comments I got while things went wonky, but if I happened to miss one of yours, I'm sorry.  I'm glad I recovered the comments, though, because I tend to think that comments left here are often more valuable than whatever dross I may have spewed in the first place.",
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