Back Up, Back up, Back Up
All right, no-brainer quiz here. What’s the number one thimg to do on a routine basis to ensure the survivability of your sites and your business? Obviously back them up on a regular basis. Everything. The databases, files, themes; everything. We all do it all everyday, right?
Right.
Well, I have this small site I created for a local band. Decent little community. With the proliferation of Xrumer the poor guest book was taking a beating. More and more spam until this last week I would clean it out in the morning and find a dozen more by evening. Finally, I broke down and did some upgrades to the security. In all the haste to get this non-profit chore done, the tables got overwritten and all of the last two year’s worth of entries were gone in a flash.
Bummer. Surely they will understand. The band , I mean.
This story has a less than unhappy ending.
I could find no sql dumps for this site anywhere, though I know I had made them at one time. Hey, half a guest book is better than none at all. I even called Godaddy. They have a recent backup, right? Yes they do. And for a mere $150.00 USD they will be glad to send you a copy. One more reason to get the heck off of Godaddy’s tit.
Then the bright idea hit me. Check the Google cache. A quick site: search and surely enough the spiders had been there last week. I printed out dozens of pages of now precious entries which can be manually re-entered. Whew.
Moral of the story for me. You can’t be in this business and be very lazy. There are lots of little details that either have to be attended to to personally or they have to be delegated. Ignoring such details is begging them to bite you in the butt. Even the small details.
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