Lost and Found, my blog!

2010 April 6
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by Julie

As you can see, my blog has been restored.  Only a few posts are missing, and I will be re-posting them this evening. I am so thrilled that it’s back! I have certainly learned my lesson and will be backing up wordpress today as well.  I’m still unsure of what happened, somehow my blog was deleted during a regular back-up of the server. It took almost a week to find another back-up on the server, but I am so thankful that my host was diligent in finding  a solution! I was ready to start over, a daunting task in itself.

Have you ever experienced this? Where you’ve had a fairly large database or project of some kind that disappeared because of a technology glitch? This is the first time in a very long time that this has happened to me.  I have a great deal of faith in the web and my current back-up systems on my computer. Do you take care of regular back-ups on your PC? We have an external hard drive so that our information is separate.  I’ve actually had one for years, for when I traveled overseas.  It was small enough to keep with me, but at the time, had enough space to store all of my photos, so that my computer wasn’t bogged down with too many photos. One of the reasons we got a larger hard drive with more space, was so that my husband Dan can also back up his work. Also, we lived through a fire at our building a few years ago, so we wanted to have an easy way to grab our data and get out, instead of grabbing laptops (which we didn’t because it was 4 am and we weren’t really thinking clearly).

One of the things I realized while my blog was down is how much I have been enjoying the experience of blogging.  I hope that you have been able to gain some nuggets of information and inspiration through the posts.  I appreciate all of my readers! And hopefully haven’t lost too many of you since the blog was down.

Have a super day everyone! My apologies if you are subscribed to the feed/emails, you will be receiving a few duplicate posts as I re-post the few entries that were lost.

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  • http://www.snipe.net snipe

    Hi Julie – glad you're back :)

    I backup my Mac *religiously* using Time Machine automated backup. It makes it stupid-easy, since it's set on a schedule and you don't even need to think about it. I've had to restore it once and the whole process was pretty painless.

    I backup my blogs to the Amazon web cloud using an automated weekly backup (weekly only because I don't post every day – would do it more often if I posted multiple times a week). The plugin I use is called Automatic Backup WordPress: http://www.webdesigncompany.net/automatic-wordp… – again, no brainer. You set it and forget it, and then if (dog forbid) you need it, you have a full set of backup files. The Amazon cloud storage costs me about $3 a month, so there's no good reason not to use it. If you're looking at network storage so that you can have virtually unlimited backup space for your photos, hard drives, etc, there are tools that let you mount the Amazon cloud space as a disk drive and automated backups that way. That way as long as you have a 'net connection, you can keep doing your backups, even when you're outside of your home network.

  • http://www.snipe.net snipe

    Hi Julie – glad you're back :)

    I backup my Mac *religiously* using Time Machine automated backup. It makes it stupid-easy, since it's set on a schedule and you don't even need to think about it. I've had to restore it once and the whole process was pretty painless.

    I backup my blogs to the Amazon web cloud using an automated weekly backup (weekly only because I don't post every day – would do it more often if I posted multiple times a week). The plugin I use is called Automatic Backup WordPress: http://www.webdesigncompany.net/automatic-wordp… – again, no brainer. You set it and forget it, and then if (dog forbid) you need it, you have a full set of backup files. The Amazon cloud storage costs me about $3 a month, so there's no good reason not to use it. If you're looking at network storage so that you can have virtually unlimited backup space for your photos, hard drives, etc, there are tools that let you mount the Amazon cloud space as a disk drive and automated backups that way. That way as long as you have a 'net connection, you can keep doing your backups, even when you're outside of your home network.