I pulled up my blog this morning and saw the last month’s worth of entries gone. Looks like my web hosting provider hosed the database and restored with an old backup. I sent a message inquiring and have not yet received an answer.
It would have been nice to have an e-mail from them… :-(
Update: I finally got the e-mail (but only in response to my ticket)
Hi, it appears as one our Support Techs had accidentially wiped critical mySQL data lastnight.
If you are completely out of MySQL data, please let us know.
If your data is severely outdated, unfortunately we only had that data onhand.Backups:
Unfortunately backups have been disabled for the last month due to it affecting system performance.
Our intentions were to reenable backups once we relocated to a new location, all servers are getting an upgrade CPU and Ram.
Currently, Backups and Stats are not able to keep up together due to slow disk writes. The planned upgrades will fix this.————-
Dylan Botha
dylan@webhostingbuzz.com
WebHostingBuzz.com
Refer us to your friends and family.
That last line appears a little ironic.
I should be able to restore much of what was lost, but unfortunately, not all of it. Unfortunately, any comments and my article on geocaching with my son are probably lost forever.
Second Update: Thanks to Google’s cache, I was able to recover most (all?) of my previous articles, including the geocaching article I wanted. Although I could recreate the comments, I chose not to because of the amount of work involved.
I guess it’s time to start a regular backup procedure. It’s not that hard to do.
Third Update (Jan 26): I just received word that the updates to my server will be complete within a couple of weeks. Hang in there and the problems accessing blogan.net should be over.
