Called CKAN package_update - lost all resources?

Question

I am running a CKAN installation. I wanted to update a package's name and some other metadata, but not touch its resources. Later I found out that this can be accomplished using package_patch - but before I did, I accidentally called package_update. Now all resources in the package seem to be lost... Any way to recover them / roll back?

Answer 1

CKAN has no built-in way to recover that data. There is the "activity stream" and its deprecated predecessor "revisions" (see this answer on SO), but AFAIK they cannot be used to restore your dataset.

If you don't have a backup of your data then it is lost.

For the future: an easy way to backup your CKAN data is using the ckanapi command line tool.