Have you backed up your blog today?
Hosting Matters had another hardware failure on the server that hosts blogHOUSTON a few days ago.
As a result of their dead hard drive and one faulty backup, they had to restore an older backup, and a few days' worth of data was lost.
Since that's the second time such data loss has happened, that meant it was time to investigate backup solutions (and maybe, eventually, a new host), so that I'll have some confidence in having a backup no more than 24 hours old if things crash again. Of course, playing with scripts takes away from posting time at a time when travel, work, and Cougar athletics events are all keeping me occupied, but hey -- stuff happens, and rarely happens at convenient times.
As it turns out, this guy has a very helpful page for people who run sites powered by mySQL databases and want a fairly automated backup system. I was able to modify his script to back up two databases (the weblog and the forum) each day via a cron job, and to email the files to a gmail account set up specifically for that purpose. So that *should* ensure that I always have a backup no older than 24 hours. Maybe. Like I said, stuff sometimes happens.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/29/07 22:14 | Tech | Technorati
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