Christopher Harper

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About Christopher Harper

I believe the internet is a medium we can no longer ignore if we are committed to “abounding in the work of the Lord” I Corinthians 15:58. It should be used by those who are charged with proclaiming truth to, with humility and conviction, relate the words and ideas of scripture. I hold a traditional, conservative, fundamentalist Christian view and believe every word of the Bible is true and should be considered before coming to conclusions or taking action.

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Restoring After a Major Blunder

December 20, 2009 4:40 am

Let me start by saying: always backup your website files and databases. Always. If I had not taken my own advice, you would not be reading this now.

This evening I was attempting to delete a test installation of Textpattern from my server when I somehow got overzealous, lazy or both and apparently deleted my entire public_html directory. That means all of my site files on four websites (including this one) were completely and totally deleted.

I typically run a full backup once or twice every month and had one on my calendar for this coming Monday. I wound up using my latest copy from November 11th. So...it could have been worse.

Suffice it to say I am going to be working overtime to restore data added over the last 39 days to all four sites. That being said, I am thankful for the backups and very happy I do not have to start from scratch. These sites represent (literally) years of diligent labor.

Let this be a lesson to us all - backup, backup, backup!