Well, I’ve learned a lot
May 6th, 2007 by adminA couple of months ago, we had a big power spike at the Billoblog household. It blew out the hard drive on my server, but hey, I’m a computer scientist and had everything backed up on a NAS drive. No problemo!
Except, of course, the NAS drive was on the same circuit as the server. Not so bright. So, I looked back among my old DVDs of backups from beforeI got my NAS, and have been able to restore the posts up to the beginning of last year. I’ve lost a year of posts. Bummer. So I’ve learned that backups arent’ enough — you have to have your backups in another location.
More important, however, I’ve lost all those wonderful comments. Sorry about that, folks. Note that a lot of the old posts say “no comments” when there really are some. That’s a database problem. The MySQL database for the Wordpress I used in 2005 and the one I use now are not exactly the same, and I can’t seem to transfer the comment count exactly. However, if I *add* another comment, the count ends up correct. Go figure. I guess I could figure out how to fix that, but I doubt that enough people read the old posts to make it worthwhile. I’ve had a chance to brush up on my SQL and php, so there’s a bit of the “glass 7/8 empty” vs “glass 1/8 full” thing.
Live and learn…
Posted in Computer stuff | 4 Comments »
May 13th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Ouch, that’s a bummer. I’m glad to see you back, though.
Note the change in my blog address.
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I have missed reading your blog due to the “blowout” but I knew your return was “BOUND TO HAPPEN”.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Glad to see you back. Enjoy your posts. Hope the Siebert lyinching material hasn’t been lost. That story isn’t over yet, although the Governor certainly prejudiced it by giving the Anderson’s such a big premature award.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I’ve moved away from internal tape drives as well as traditional NAS units in favor of multiple cheap external drives or what I call RALFs because I couldn’t make an interesting acronym out of MCED. At $100 or less a pop, you can pretty much have one of these for each day of the week and still spend less than the cost of a few 100GB tapes.
Cheers!