{"id":1092,"date":"2009-10-25T01:17:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T05:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2009-10-25T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T05:21:28","slug":"lesson-re-learned-back-up-religiously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Lesson (Re-)Learned: back up religiously"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, I’ve been backing up the contents of this blog pretty religiously for about 5 years now, since its inception. \u00a0Every week I’d have a fresh new copy of everything ready to go in case disaster struck.<\/p>\n

Then of course, a little complacency and Murphy’s Law conpsired against me, and the one month I finally trip up a bit and lapse on doing backups, disaster finally strikes.<\/p>\n

I attempted to upgrade this server to the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu<\/a>. \u00a0It’s a fine server operating system by the way, I highly recommend it. \u00a0Anyway, the upgrade had gone well all of my test servers and some productions systems I’m responsible for, so I figured there shouldn’t be a problem, right?<\/p>\n

Sadly, no. \u00a0The update, for reasons yet unknown, put this particular site into a coma, and all data was unrecoverable. \u00a0No way to log in. \u00a0No way to save anything. \u00a0No way to even get the web server running again so people can read my drivel.<\/p>\n

And so I had no choice: wipe out the server and rebuild it from scratch, restoring from backups. \u00a0Too bad I got lazy and my last backup was over a month old.<\/p>\n

As a result, everything I wrote through the month of October was essentially lost. \u00a0Not that it was Pulitzer winning material or anything. \u00a0Even so, losing any of your work can be very disheartening.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I’ll be backing up far more frequently once again. \u00a0And, being a little more cautious about upgrading tot he latest and greatest server OS until I know for certain things will go well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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