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I got a major scare yesterday afternoon when a technical glitch made all my posts ‘disappear’. The header was there. So was the side bar. But no posts!
I turned hot and cold. Literally. Why oh why did I not think about backing up everything before this?
My head started to throb menacingly after I checked WordPress’ list of posts and nothing came out. My heart sank when the Dashboard said “There are 0 posts, 0 comments and 0 categories.”
Mentally berating myself, I hurriedly did a Google search on the posts that mean the most to me — ‘When Egg Was Yellow‘, ‘Introducing RoundBoy‘, ‘OnlyGirl‘, ‘Has It Really Been 10 Year Already?‘, ‘The Twins @ 2 Yrs 3 Mos‘ — and heaved a huge sigh of relief when I saw that Google cached a lot of them. I spent about an hour searching and printing them out. Just in case.
Click here to see an explanation of how Google takes snapshots of websites and stores (caches) them as a backup.
I was told that my posts didn’t really ‘disappear’ but there was some problem with the webhosting. The news calmed me down a bit, but my headache persisted, worry lingering at the back of my mind.
When I woke up this morning, naturally, the first thing I did was check my site. I let out a silent whoop (as the twins were still sleeping) when my posts finally loaded.
I shall, therefore, make it a point to back up all my posts this weekend. And if you have a site of your own, I strongly urge you to do the same!
Thanks be to God. Very much relieved now that it is back because your site is good and worth reading.
owhh thats why tak dapat nak view yesterday..alhamdulillah :)
was checking it too, but no luck… glad ur now back
Whoa, what a scare! Good to know it’s all sorted out. I think I’ll back up my posts too.
oh my! i would have gone crazy if that happened to me! i backed up my entries already. hee hee! :)
oh, i’m glad everything is fine now. :)
blogger emails me all of my posts, so i automatically have a back-up for all posts. maybe wordpress has the same feature?
thanks, all. i’m very relieved to be back, too. hehe ;)
i’m not sure re: wordpress but i’ve got a different way of doing it through my webhost.
oh man, that is scary mimi. hehehe. i’l try to do that as well ;-)
I experienced something like this last week. I read another blogger had this, too. Someone’s hacking the server. I’m glad my host provider assisted me in recreating my account. It took them almost half an hour.