Well, the database backup was a complete waste of time. But….what many of you don’t know is that I originally started blogging on LiveJournal (by the by, thats how I met my wife.) Well, for quite a while I had a plugin for WordPress that would take whatever I posted here and copy it to LiveJournal. As it turns out, it’s a two-way street – I can import those posts back from LiveJournal. In effect, LJ was a backup.
Not perfect though. I lost April 2013 through now. But, that beats the crap outta losing everything. Formatting and images are going to be screwed but I can tinker with that since I managed to save most of the images elsewhere.
But…what really, really, really takes the black cloud from over my head is this: I can still point to these posts as my bona fides to being one of the oldest, if not the oldest, preparedness blogs on the internet. Eleven years.
Now, if you’ll excuse me. I have to go back the hell up outta this thing……
Real men dont do backups, they just cry more often.
So, how many levels of redundancy will you be running by the end of the year?
Also, how many of those are automated vs manual (just so you KNOW it’s working)?
At the moment, I have a plugin running that backs up *everything* once a week, dumps the backup files to Google Drive AND to my email, sends me emails when it happens, and keeps five older copies on hand before deleting the oldest.
And I’m STILL not sure I shouldn’t have a second autobackup running somewhere.
Oh, and I reinstalled the LJ crossposter so now the posts are all crossposted to LJ so LJ can act as a sort of ‘ghetto backup’
I’d probably still do a manual backup to an external hard drive monthly just because. Especially with 11 years of posts to cover.
Yeah, I think Im gonna be in overprotective mode for a while. There’s a lesson to be learned here for all the other bloggers out there.
Met my wife on LJ too. Back when you still had to explain what a blog was heh.
11 years?
Noob.
Night Driver, Timebomb2000 plankholder for 3 versions…16 yrs.
Hmm….that appears to be a forum rather than a blog, though. Forumwise, I think I’ve been through the 3 incarnations of Frugal Squirrel since , I think, 1997. But, I did give myself an out 😉 …I included “one of”.