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Oh Rats!

[no running today]

Sometimes things happen…  no that’s not quite honest.

I received an email from our web hosting company that there were files their virus scanner picked up.  So I got on their system and I was deleting these files.  Some of the files were in this folder called TM.  It crossed my mind that TM was my son’s blog which he doesn’t use any more.  So I just threw that whole folder in the trash.  Then I emptied the trash.

Later that day my wife said, “My blog is not working.  It is giving me a 404 error.”

I wanted to crawl under my desk and die.  I had deleted her blog.

So, in hopes they had a backup, I called the tech support and they said that the database of the blog was still OK. Which meant that the lost parts were the pictures and attachments.  And I had a backup from February when we had to move the blog to a different server. I restored the February backup and spent some time in the evening getting most of her pictures restored from other sources.  There are still some pictures I haven’t found yet.

That feeling of realization, that I’ve really messed up and I may not be able to fix it; I don’t like that feeling.  I haven’t had it very often.  Given what I learn in church on Sunday mornings, I probably should have that feeling more often then I do.  It’s the grace of God that covers a lot of my mistakes and ineptness and just downright rebellion.


Update:  I wasn’t able to find all of the pictures and things. I got most of it back but not all.  The web provider will do a restoration to July 11th for a one time charge of $70+ dollars.  So we’ve decided to do that.  And we have added the slightly extra-cost option to our hosting plan to have regular tape backups of the site and blogs.