Blog Undergoing Reconstruction
by Scott Allen - September 3, 2008
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You may have noticed that a few articles are missing, along with some other slight changes. Last night the database for the blog imploded. (The reason still isn’t clear…nothing seems to have been hacked.) The host ran a restore on the daily backup which turns out to have stopped updating in April. Same thing with the other backups. More on this shortly but please be patient as we are currently working to reconstruct blog posts from the past few months. Thank you.
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Sorry to hear your blog blew up. I’m wondering if you use the WP DB Backup plugin and might have downloaded a recent DB backup to your computer maybe? If not, it might be worth considering installing this plugin since you never know when a restore done by your host might blow up as well (not the first time I’ve heard this happening to folks). This plugin has saved my bacon more than once since I always have a recent local backup to restore my DB manually via phpMyAdmin. That is if I actually remember to do a backup now and then. :P
Hey Kirk. Thanks for the sympathy. :) That plugin may actually have been part of the problem. We had it installed and it started acting up before our database imploded. There may be a security hole in the plugin. I’d actually recommend people not use it after that. We don’t know for sure and probably never will. Someone needs to look into that though.
It’s easy enough to manually back things up and restore them in phpMyAdmin. It’s just a matter of making it part of the weekly schedule now.
Automated is nice, but I’ll probably never trust automated DB backups again.
Now that’s strange. I’ve been using the WP DB Backup plugin for 3 years now to do manual backups of my entire DB without a hitch. Granted, it only does a backup of the entire WordPress core tables (plus selectable plugin tables) so I have to use phpMyAdmin to work the individual tables themselves but I’ve never had a problem with the plugin itself.
You’ve got my curiosity up though. I’ll have to do a bit of research on the possibility of a security risk. I’m not a programmer by any means but that’s never stopped me from finding out needed info. I’ll let you know if I find anything.