Some System Admins Are Idiots
November 19th, 2009 by MrHattyHatYes, I’m talking about myself.
Recently (as in the past two days) I was kind of forced by circumstance to migrate all of my hosting to a new server. It was well time for that to take place anyway, so I made the plans and took care of it. All in all it actually went pretty well considering I was moving websites, email, databases, etc. all while trying to maintain uninterrupted service to those who benefit from my hosting (that includes this site).
Well, the millions of you who read this blog may notice something conspicuously absent from the post archive: All posts since July!
Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I lost some data…apparently. To be honest, I have no idea how it happened either. Before the old server went offline I synchronized the database files between the two servers, so the new server should have had all the latest from the old server. But somehow, when this site came back up, it was light a few posts. It’s very perplexing because it’s not like those posts were stored in their own files that got missed or something. Theoretically, if the database files related to this blog from the old system got copied to the new system then all the posts should be here, but magically they are not.
So I’m stumped, and my apologies go out to MtyThor and myself–the authors of the only missing posts–and to those who may have had excellent comments on any of the posts (but not those who made dumb comments).
So I guess we’ll just build from here with a parting thought from that oft-quoted orator whose succinct expression of exasperation has never been more appropriate:
D’oh!
P.S. If I figure out what happened and how to fix it, rest assured that I will.









