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| Organic Jerk:
This post has no point other than to rant and rave. I've been working on a site for my cab-in-progress, "Pixel Assault": http://www.organicperception.com/pixelassault/ Up to this morning I had about 15 long and well detailed posts going through EVERYTHING in the procress of creating it, from logo and concept development to cutting the sides. I login to wordpress and decide to upgrade to the new version. (2.2.1) The upgrade directions say to delete all files except the ones you've edited. I feel a bit uneasy doing this, but I do it anyway. I keep my gallery and theme folder since those are the ones I worked on (as I remember).. In trying to set up the new version, there seem to be conflicts.. Seems I didn't backup the VERY FIRST file I edited, which is the wp-config.php. file, that was part of the original install. I am forced to delete the database (which holds ALL MY CONTENT).. I don't feel too bad doing this because I backed up everything into an xml file via the wordpress "backup" option. I reinstall wordpress... set my custom theme up again... AND I CANT FIND THE DATABASE BACKUP FILE. I distinctly remember downloading it to specific location with a date-related filename, and now it's nowhere to be found.. I did a search for EVERYTHING on the drive with the .xml filetype and it's nowhere. So now I'm stuck with a blank site and a GREAT FEELING OF LOSS AND DISDAIN AS I THINK ABOUT WRITING EVERYTHING OVER. Trust me, I know it's entirely my fault. I should have kept a text file backup of each and every post in a directory in my HD... I can;t for the life of me figure out why that database backup JUST DISSAPEARED, though...... WTF |
| leapinlew:
can your ISP help? |
| BrentRadio:
That sucks! :cry: |
| Malenko:
did you search for a .BAK file? its long shot, but cant hurt |
| ChadTower:
A quick tip from a professional: Setting a backup strategy isn't enough. You have to test your restore process as well. Without proving your backup is good and you can use it as needed you have no way of knowing that you actually can recover lost data. |
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