{"id":825,"date":"2012-11-19T04:38:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/?p=825"},"modified":"2012-11-19T04:38:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:38:31","slug":"daisy-daisy-give-me-your-answer-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/daisy-daisy-give-me-your-answer-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My computer has lost its mind<\/a>: at least the one running my website \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

While on vacation I started to receive email from my VPS provider<\/a>: saying that some of their systems were compromised<\/a> and that many customers were being reverted to their plain-vanilla virtual machines, or restored from backups. I was one of the people who got everything wiped, and had to fall back on my own backups.<\/p>\n

No big deal, right?<\/p>\n

I had automated backups configured for this website and my Minecraft Server<\/a>…. however they weren’t working properly, and in the case of the Minecraft backups I had gotten lazy:<\/p>\n

  • The website database backups automatically get sent to me by email (they’re small), but that feature was part of a plugin that got disabled during a WordPress upgrade back in March 2012 – and I didn’t notice<\/li>\n
  • Because I had lots of disk space on my server, and because Minecraft backups are large: I had been keeping a rotating collection of backups… but on the server<\/em>. That was protecting me from doing something stupid (i.e. failed Minecraft update).. but wasn’t protecting me from a complete server meltdown\n<\/li>\n

    Long story short: except for a few exceptions I had to roll everything back to how it was in March, then cobble back together any blog updates from then until now. We lost about 6 months of Minecraft updates: lots of world changes we’ll have to redo, and blog updates (if any) between Dec 2011 and March 2012 are gone too. I just spent 4 hours stitching things back together, and this is as good as it’s going to get.<\/p>\n

    Current task: make sure everything “in the Cloud” gets copied to my home PC every day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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