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The Importance Of Back Up
How productive is your day as a blogger? If you measure the productivity of your day by whether you have been updating your posts, then I guess most of us, including myself, will fall far short of what a productive day should be. In fact it is true that some of my days are spent reading other blogs or researching some topics, and I could have just used those materials to write my posts. Yet I was just too lazy to collect my thoughts and write. Well, there are other days when I spent some precious time trying to fix a problem which could have been prevented if I have done the most important thing that all bloggers must do. If I would ask the question: “What is the most important thing any blogger should do periodically?” the answer is found actually in the title of this post. So there will be no prize for guessing.
Two days ago, a good friend of mine sought my help to set up his wordpress in his main domain after failing to do so for a while. Being a little more techie savvy, I took up the challenge. After trying a few time to set up his wordpress by smartftp to his hostingbay without success, I resort to use the fantastico wizard provided by the hostingbay to do so. And hooray, it was done! I was feeling proud of myself for being “techie savvy”. But my euphoria was short-lived! Somehow in the process I must have acidentally deleted some database which belongs to his addon domain, www.alistairlihai.com belonging to his son. This is an upcoming young blogger, currently already acquired some followers. His posts are usually read and commented by no less than 20 readers. So you can imagined our shock and despair when we could not load his main page! For a couple of hours into the wee hour of the Friday night, I tried all my resources to restore to no avail. The last resort was to appeal to the hostingbay to retrieve the lost database, and the wallet thinner by AUD75.00. Fortunately, after they sent me the backup files, I was able to help restore the database at the server. Now everything is back to normal.
That was some good hours spent trying to restore the blog. If only I have done a backup for him to begin with, I would have been able to get it running in a short time, and the AUD75 will be still intact in the wallet. So the question to all of you now is, when was the last time you did your back up of your precious blog or blogs? Stop reading this post and start your backup if you have not done so, a friendly reminder from a fellow blogger.
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Oh dear! Sorry to hear that and glad that no data was hurt (or lost) in the process …
This blog is titled my learning curve in earning money online. The last few days constitute part of that learning curve, I guess
I am glad that in the process, I learn so much about backup, restoring database and in particular some of the important features of wordpress behind the scene.
Hey friend, my blog title is Money Learning And Earning Curve for a good reason, the last few days constitutes that crucial part of learning curve, for a a price. I am glad that in the process I was able to learn so much more about backup, restoring database and the best gain of all is the understanding of how wordpress handles database management behind the scene. Cheers
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