What Would You Do?
Hail up, my peeps. So, guess what has happened to me now? Natty is gone away again, and out of sheer boredom, I decided to upgrade both this blog and the one at the Tower of Babel website to the latest stable version of Wordpress (Ver. 2.1.3). I decided to work with the Tower of Babels site first, but then when I went in to backup the datanase, I backed up the database for this one. Then I dropped the database I had out there named [standard db-name]-mu, right? After all, I had flirted with Wordpress MU briefly but then I had shelved it and I wasn’t planning to go back to it. Why keep that database around, know what I mean? EEEP!!! Wrong move! Hear this nuh! I totally forgot that when I moved the Tower of Babel to Wordpress, I decided to use the [standard db-name]-mu database to house the tables for the Tower of Babel site! This means that the Tower site is down until further notice. 
Oh well… things could be worse. My webhost (Hosting Matters) should be able to restore a recent copy of the database and so I should soon be back in business. I have had a troublecall created with them already, hopefully it will be restored by tomorrow night, though I noticed that the call was given a “Low Priority” status. I will keep you posted.
Can you imagine if they are not able to recover my database for some reason though? Luckily its the Tower, which is not my main blog! I wonder what I would do if I lost my main blog though?
Actually, I would still have all my posts up to March 4, 2006, at least, I would have them if all I lost was the database for my current site. That is still the vast majority of my bloggage over the years tjough. Losing just over a year’s worth of bloggage would still be quite depressing!
Imagine if I lost my entire bloggage over the years, from 2001 right up to now? Or even just the stuff from April 2002, when I upgraded to Version 2 of my blog… Wow! Would I start over or would I just fling in the towel? I really don’t know.
If it were you though… if you lost it all, would you pick up the pieces and start again? Think about it and tell me. For now, I man gone to go finish up this novel I reading. One love.
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Well, the database has been restored and alls well that ends well.
[sigh] I love Hosting Matters
I have started from scratch before… but I have the old archives on a disk somewhere. I think I’d be inclined to save it, at least locally, if possible. If you can’t get it from a backup - you can always use Google’s Cache or the Way Back Machine.
Heh - I had this screen open for a while before commenting… didn’t see your first comment!
Kewl. I would start over too… As I told you before, you can’t just quit like Lara. Think of all the little caribloggers who look up to you… They would be devastated…
In all honsetsy, at the stage I’m at now, I would probably just kiss mi teet and give up…but I would miss the archives…there have been some pretty decent posts/comments in the past.
sometimes a clean slate does the trick. think about all the old posts you could re-live bigger better and badder than before. Or stuff you wish you’d never posted. oh you delete those already I see. ok kool
Poor Lara was forced out Trouble…..
I would first be devastated, at the loss of such incredible penmanship. I would then go about drowning my sorrows and contemplating my fate. Eventually I would start again, because it is so darn addictive telling the world anonymously about your daily activities and have them comment.
HELLS NO!
There will be no towel throwing right here!
If all is lost, u simply do what you have to do.. start again.
So life go.
Mi granny always seh life nuh fair… work-wid-it.
That said, i hope it can fix. for real.
dude dont sweat it.. my host http://hostja.com restores up to the previous day.. hopefully yours does so you wont loose any data. Now for future reference, variables / databaes w/e always name them with referential names. Secondly before doing anything I always export the databases i will be working with so i may do a restore in the event that i f’d up.. cant imagine me screwing a gleaner website and not having a backup..
Island Spice, Taylor, it fix already! Taylor, you’re right. The database should have been named appropriately. Actually, its a testament to the trouble free nature of wordpress / mysql, because occasionally I have worked with databases which have had names which weren’t referential but those were in Oracle and they had to be maintained all the time, so you could never forget which database contained your tables, after all, you were messing about in the database’s innards all the time so you knew it like the back of your hand.
I will have to get the DB name changed one way or another.