http://socket7.net Crisis Averted! A weblog by Brett Stimmerman. brettstimmerman@gmail.com (Brett Stimmerman) brettstimmerman@gmail.com (Brett Stimmerman) http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://socket7.net/article/data-loss <p>Wow. A day or so ago (how long has it been now?) I made some changes to my database, and well... hosed all my data. I have been neglecting this site for a while and it took me a few days to even notice I had done this. How sad. Shame on me.</p> <p>Sadly, the data is just plain gone. No backups. Double shame on me. A solid backup scheme was something I had been planning on, but just hadn't got to it yet. I might be able to recreate some of the data from Google's cache, but it'll have to wait until I have the time to do it.</p> <p>Another side effect is that many of the custom features I had written into the database are missing, as well, which completely cripples the software this site runs on. There will be much settling of dust, errors and frustration.</p> <p>If you haven't done so today, go make a backup of whatever data is important to you.</p> <p class="update"><strong>Update: (16 June, 2006)</strong> I've started rebuilding the database from Google's cache. It's proving to be tedious.</p> <p class="update"><strong>Update: (19 June, 2006)</strong> I've restored what I can from Google's cache. Some articles and all are still missing, but I'm ok with that.</p> backup data loss database http://socket7.net/article/data-loss#comments http://socket7.net/article/data-loss Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:37:08 -0700