Crashed Real Bad
Well it's working to some degree, half of the images are missing and a bunch of other stuff isn't working properly yet.
Plus the last time I backed up the database was September 10th so all posts/comments since then have been lost.
I've gotten the Google cache from the front page, but those posts I was using the 'more' tag...I've lost the rest of the post.
I'll try and recreate them the best I can over the weekend if my original host really can't recover anything.
Apparently there was some kind of cascading failure, so when the hard-disk failed it also b0rked the backup server...and that was the end of that.
Everything is gone, all my important sites, money making sites...everything.
Luckily I was getting suspicious last month and did a quick backup, I'm not sure if I backed up the files though.
And now this site is hosted in Malaysia so it should be blazingly fast for people in Asia-pac.
Hopefully I'll get the latest SQL dump from the previous host and put all the images back and we'll be sorted.
If not I'll patch things back together the best I can do.
Another lesson - don't rely on others BACKUP REGULARLY...I wish I had got around to setting up the automated back-up for all the servers accounts like I kept meaning to.
It just goes to show procrastination is the mother of all fuck-ups.
Tags: back-ups, backup, cascade, cascade-failure, down, down-time, fuck-up, hardware-failture, important, procrasination, stupid-host
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eh Kim's site still down leh?
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Use Blogspot, don't even have the option for backing up
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Ouch. Quite a lot of data gone it seems, I used to be lazy as well for backing up my stuff, until 1 day hdd failed and i lost all my programs, files and stuff.
Got so pissed I wanted to kicked myself for not backing up more regularly.
Well, once was enough for me, once bitten twice shy.
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ST: You said you got suspicious last month. What made you so?
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Since you're on WordPress, the new backups do have it automatically emailing it to your email. I just set it to regularly email it to my Gmail with Gmail archiving all my backups.
Worked like a charm until I there was a problem sending, but still...I managed to get all my backups.
Another good thing too, get a reliable webhost. It's always about "cheap, good and fast. Pick two." Mine's in the states hosted by people I can trust, with daily backups. So even if my own hatchet job of a backup fails, I've still got my back watched.
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My RSS reader archived your pages, but up to a certain limits. Email me and I will check when do I have. Cheers.
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Sorry to hear that. well at least its up and running
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Man, that sucks. Hope you can recover most (all would be better) of your content.
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Reminds me of the crash we had 2 years back. Just remember to switch off your pings before recovering the posts. Good luck man.
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own3d by hosting is the most sien.
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that sucks man ... the thing is that there is nothing much you can do ...
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Luckily that you still have a backup of it even though you have lost one month worth of posts. It could have been a lot worse. Although I wanted to install the wp-db-backup plugin a long time ago, I have been lazy. I installed it last night after knowing what has happened to your server. Hope you get to recover more of your posts.
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I can't afford this to happen to my blog. I scheduled my blog to auto backup once a week using a plugin.
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All the best, and hope your site will recover soon.
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it knocked up the backup server as well?
HOW>?!?!
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People have been preaching, 'Back up, back up' but we keep procrastinating.
I guess I will have to back up my stuff now.
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Ouch. No wonder your feed is showing the Zodiac review at the top. I have the old post's in my reader but they are just the excerpts... Here's to hope that you get your content back.
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I WILL BACK UP MINE NOW!!!!111
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Thanks for the wishes all! Things are 95% back to normal now, just a bit of 2 posts missing and all the comments since Sept 10th
I suggest everyone back-up EVERYTHING right NOW!
moons: Yah just never expect it to happen, especially when host promises back-up.
ben: There was a crash, some down-time, a complete lack of responses from the host and their support system license key expired..
Edrei: Yah will set-up a proper system this time, it was semi-manual as the host was supposed to be backing it up. It was hosted in the US too in a good data-center...and it wasn't cheap either. Oh well, I'll host it in Malaysia now with someone I trust and I'm setting up a VPS for my other sites so I can manage it myself.
melvin,foong: Thanks Melvin, sorted it now.
gbyeow: No worries, I ping manually
TenthOfMarch: Yah could have been 3 years of posts...lucky only 1 month.
Boss Stewie: No idea, they called it a 'cascade' failure.