Fudged Up Databases

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | Site Updates

Ok, so there was this little problem on my sites. Basically it was a permissions problem, and since I didn’t know the exact cause the easiest way to fix the problem was to move everything on my server under the smartass user to another user account.

I did this, and my control panel confirmed everything was moved and I did a check to see that all the files had moved, which they had.

So I restarted the server to confirm that my site was still running properly off the new moved files and made a change to site and confirmed that it worked from new account. So I deleted the old “empty” user account.

Then all of a sudden my site would not load…. Hmm, the files are still there.. WTF. Dug around a bit more and it seems that my databases were gone… Seems they don’t move when you change owner (like they should).

Now, I am a reasonable person. I have a backup right? Hmm… I knew there was some automated process I never got around to doing when I setup a dedicated server for myself…

Ok, I found a backup of all my 8 databases. However there is one problem with that. The backup is from March. That means that anything I have written since then is gone. Ok there is one post that “girl says” had a copy of, so I will be able to restore that one if I choose.

Well, I don’t want my history erased so I will remake the posts… but not really. Instead I will make new posts about the same things with slightly more of a current twist and hopefully more humor, since DAMN was that stupid on my part to not have a backup. I mean everything I wrote about my roadtrip in March and April is gone, and everthing I have written about living in New Zealand is also gone….

UPDATE: Google loves me, this I know for they cached my blog posts so!!!!!

               

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