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Is anyone else having trouble accessing their blog? Mine appears to be... GONE!!! I tried logging in, and now it says there's "no such user name"! My goodness, if I could only count the hours I've spend using my blog to plan my upcoming trip... my goodness, I really hope it's not gone for good. Did my IT Department go all Big Brother on me, or is anyone else having problems with their blog?! HELP!!

G'day Christine,

We have had a series of server errors and the database that was storing all the blog entries was wiped clean. The most recent back-up that we've been able to restore is from August 17th. All our daily back-ups between August 17th and now are missing for the moment.

We are still working on finding a more recent back-up.

In the meantime, you can look for your blog posts by searching google for them. Paste http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:blogs.bootsnall.com/ChristineHind/ into a web browser. You should see most (if not all) of your entries listed and cached. You can copy and paste the text of each into a new entry and back-date it.

Again, we are very sorry about this inconvenience - let us know if you need any help.

AARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!

I want to throw up! I too have spent hours on my blog, trying to find internet connections on the road and uploading tons of pictures!! Luckily I still have most of my posts on my hard drive (minus the pictures), but I don't have time to redo everything the way it was.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, do everything you can to solve this and restore our lost entries.

BTW, I tried your search option and nothing comes up.

The photos from all your posts have not been lost. We do have those and we're creating a page with a list of all images uploaded since August.

I also looked for your entries on Yahoo instead of google and I found them here.

Hi there, don't want to be yet another person who is distraught, but I can't find my entries either. Are you saying you will restore all the entries lost? I am freaking out, and I am leaving the western world in a very short time. HELP!

Hi JessieLynn,

Here are your cached entries that you can copy and paste into your blog again and back date them to the correct dates.

you are a star!

thanks bunches.


hopefully this won't happen again?!



jessielynn

Yahoo seems to have a much more thorough and recent cache of my site than Google. Others may want to scour it for missing posts of theirs. Thanks for the suggestion, Chris.

Ack... yeah, so I just discovered the missing entries... I found them all in the cache, but do I have to reload everything now? The text itself is no problem, but will I have to reupload any photos?

Oh, though I did have some saved and not yet published entries I was working on... how's it looking for them to be recoverable?

Incidently, how often do you schedule server backups? Just curious...

Phew!

Like most of you, I didn't have a backup copy on my hard drive of hardly any of my site, but I didn't end up losing any posts or pictures. The site is a little screwed up, but I subscribed to my own RSS feed a while back and have all of my posts safe and sound in Google Reader.

I would strongly encourage all of you booties to do the same with your own blogs, because it takes 10 seconds and will totally alleviate the panic you feel when this kind of thing happens. No offense to any of the admin guys, but chances are it'll happen again, and the RSS feed seems like a good form of redundancy.

Good luck to everyone else trying to salvage their posts.

C.J.

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The text itself is no problem, but will I have to reupload any photos?

As mentioned in an eariler post, the images are safe and sound. They do not have to be uploaded again and we'll soon have a page where you can find the images that were uploaded in this missing time frame.

if you don't want to wait and you're comfortable looking at the source code of your cached pages, you can extract the image code from those pages and paste them into your 'new' entries.

Click on the 'View' menu of your browser, click 'view source' and you'll see all the html that nakes up your page. Hunt through to find the image you want and copy the code from there into your blog.

Ok, cool. I guess what I was more curious about was, will photos have the same URL as before the way things stand now, but from what I understand, that's yes...

Yes, they will.

Cool, thank you much. I'm all restored... hope everyone else makes out as well.

Ok, found all my entries from Aug 17 to Sep 14th, so still missing sep 15th on. Used Google search cache -- thank you loads and heaps Chris! Is there anyone who knows how to find the entries from the last 5 days or so?

Christine,

Try searching yahoo. I found a very recent cache of individual pages over there.

I was able to view the front page of my blog using the google cached page but I use the "Read the rest of this entry link" on all of my posts and when I clicked on there I could not see anything so it does not look like I will be able to get any of my posts back. I am going to e mail my friends to see if anyone has been printing them but if not then it looks like I am pretty buggered.

Is there any way I can get back the drafts I did? They always go after I click publish but are they stored anywhere different?

This is a nightmare.

James

I searched on google for your blog URL string of your pages and was able to pick up the last few entries that were showing on your blog. For example, put blogs.bootsnall.com/jimbobbill/ into google and search. Then click on "repeat the search with the omitted results included."

This should give you a longer list of entries and you'll see cached URL's like: blogs.bootsnall.com/jimbobbill/?p=44

I have lost the last two entries on my blog. I tried to do as search like you mentioned but nothing came up. Could you please advise?

Thank You

This is the only page I could find. I don't know what your last entry looks like to know if this is it or not.

Here is a cache of your RSS feed. Perhaps you can copy the text from here.

If you know anyone who has subscribed to your RSS feed you may be able to get a copy of your entry from that too.