{"id":108,"date":"2008-08-28T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2008\/08\/backups-rule-okay\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T08:40:12","slug":"backups-rule-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2008\/08\/backups-rule-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"Backups Rule, Okay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that the site was down for a couple of hours yesterday, and when it was back up, that most of the content was missing until this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my fault &#8211; I was doing some database maintenance, and inadvertently dropped the entire database.  Normally, that wouldn&#8217;t be a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Except when your backup script isn&#8217;t running.  Gulp!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just moved the site from an older server, onto a newer one &#8211; and was cleaning up afterwards.  Hence the need to do a little database maintenance.  However, I&#8217;d not started using the database backup script on the new server yet.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I am now.  I found enough data from old dumps, and RSS feeds, that I was able to piece it all back together.<\/p>\n<p>And yes&#8230;I do feel like a dill!  Moral of the story &#8211; completely wake up, and have at least one <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gloriajeans.com.au\/\">coffee<\/a> before doing database maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that the site was down for a couple of hours yesterday, and when it was back up, that most of the content was missing until this morning. Well, my fault &#8211; I was doing some database maintenance, and inadvertently dropped the entire database. Normally, that wouldn&#8217;t be a bad thing. Except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}