Backups

The sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach seems bottomless.

It’s gone – all of it gone.

I haven’t been on the site in weeks and on this site on months and yesterday I needed some info on my personal site – and it was gone.  Empty white space when I went to the domain name.

I knew it wasn’t some I had done as I checked on several computers and always the same results.  So I’m on the phone with the hosting company to ask – where have you put my website.

They check – all the other sites are up and working fine.  Just my personal domain and this journal.  But they have no idea as to why or what, so they will investigate… and see if it’s in their back up of their system.

A couple of hours later, they inform me that their back shows that the sites been gone for a couple of weeks and they wonder if I have a copy.  Ha!

Yes, I have a copy of my website on my hard drive- that’s where it was created and so it’s there.  But this is a Word Press site and it’s not created on my hard drive … and that I don’t have backups for because it’s not a html coded page but in some database system somewhere – and that’s all beyond my techy understanding.

They say they’ll check more and get back to me.  I give them the information I have – yes, I keep fairly detailed records.

A couple of hours later they let me know they found the database and they can rebuild the site.  That’s good because I wouldn’t know where to begin or what to do.  I just do the writing, not the restoring.

So now all has been restored.  I reloaded my website and it’s functioning as well… but I’m going to have to do a little work to let Google know I’m still around.  The site was down long enough for Google to notice.  Guess that means I really should be checking in more often.   I’ll try to do better.

Just for the record, just because I don’t put my praises online, doesn’t mean I’m not thankful.  I am thankful.  And this year more than before.

I consider each new day a gift from God! every friend an honor to know! and all backups a priceless blessing!  

Father, I thank you for back ups  In this high tech world we live in, so many things can be lost forever simply by an error of a comma in the wrong place.  Such is the computer world and programming, yet it is all still subject to human error.  Thank you for restoring my website and bless the computer guru’s on the other side of this site who had the knowledge of how to restore the data and put it all back together again.  But most of all Lord, thank you for being the restorer of my soul and I sing you praises for doing all my backups!