May 2008 Archives
If you've looked at this blog before, you've probably noticed that the design has changed. While I'd love to say that this was a calm and peaceful upgrade to the newest version of MovableType, it was anything but peaceful.
About 2 weeks ago, we had an issue with one of our servers which caused some data loss. Regular accounts were restored and things are pretty much back to normal, except that my personal accounts weren't in the backup rotation so a restore wasn't possible for these. I did happen to have a recent backup of the database itself but the MovableType tables were for version 3.3. The only version of MT I could find was the newest 4.1 and after looking at the table differences, it seemed like more of a challenge than I was interested in taking.
So, the blog is back up and running on 4.1 with the previous entries hand-copy/pasted into the new tables from a raw .sql file so I could at least have the posts back. I may go through and do the same with the comments but I haven't gotten there yet.
We're obviously looking at our entire backup strategy very closely and hope to have something much more complete in the works in the coming days and weeks to avoid the situation that happened while I was attending the NAR Midyear conference and trade expo. Unfortunately, due to said problems, I was only able to attend about 5 hours of the conference so I don't have the type of reaction or information I was hoping to have and post.
About 2 weeks ago, we had an issue with one of our servers which caused some data loss. Regular accounts were restored and things are pretty much back to normal, except that my personal accounts weren't in the backup rotation so a restore wasn't possible for these. I did happen to have a recent backup of the database itself but the MovableType tables were for version 3.3. The only version of MT I could find was the newest 4.1 and after looking at the table differences, it seemed like more of a challenge than I was interested in taking.
So, the blog is back up and running on 4.1 with the previous entries hand-copy/pasted into the new tables from a raw .sql file so I could at least have the posts back. I may go through and do the same with the comments but I haven't gotten there yet.
We're obviously looking at our entire backup strategy very closely and hope to have something much more complete in the works in the coming days and weeks to avoid the situation that happened while I was attending the NAR Midyear conference and trade expo. Unfortunately, due to said problems, I was only able to attend about 5 hours of the conference so I don't have the type of reaction or information I was hoping to have and post.
