Putting it Back Together Again

Photo by Alan Turkus (cc)

After Monday night’s mishap I’ve restored about 98% of the site here successfully. I won’t bore you with nerdy details but as a PSA, let me just put it out there to have more than one backup of your files before Mercury goes retrograde… my regular database backup was corrupted and if it weren’t for a stray file from early December (which normally would have been overwritten by the new one) I probably would have lost everything here.

So, sadly, I can’t restore most of the comments from after December 3rd, but it’s a small price to pay. I also need to rebuild the blogroll and resource links but otherwise everything is fully functional again. Thanks for the well wishes, and for you WordPressers and other self-hosted bloggers, remember to back up your site and database files. And have more than one copy of each, as I’ve now learned.

WordPress Codex: Backups

About Shannon Garcia

Shannon is a lifelong student of people and their habits. She has studied tarot and astrology since 1994, and consulted and taught professionally since 2006. Her teaching and workshops are in the fields of digital media, communication, work-life balance, creative renewal, astrology, and tarot.

One Response to Putting it Back Together Again

  1. Diane L January 22, 2010 at 5:24 pm #

    Hi Shannon,

    I have nominated you for a Kreativ Blogger award . . . feel free to do whatever you wish with this!

    Go over to my new website for the details: Libra Seeking Balance

    (much, much more Libra than yours! ::grin::)
    .-= Diane L´s last blog ..Kreativ Blogger Award!! =-.
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