Bombippy Backups?
I’m using Movable Type 3.16 to power Bombippy.com. Yesterday I tried upgrading to Movable Type 3.17. Big mistake!
Panic set in after I wiped out my old installation and realized that you cannot upgrade from Movable Type 3.16 to 3.17. I didn’t have a recent backup of my template files or my Movable Type 3.16 installation. Oh crap.
The good news is that I use DreamHost for hosting my websites. It turns out that they backup your entire website every hour, every two hours, every day, every two days, every week and so on. I was amazed and relieved.
Retrieving the backup was very simple and didn’t take long at all. Within ten minutes I recovered at least a thousand files and had my site the way it was when I started my day.
Stumble It!Posted in Bombippy at 11:14 AM
Comments
And what have we learned today?
Posted by: Paul on July 8, 2005 11:42 PM
I learned that I don’t have to back up my files. At least not with Dreamhost. But just in case Dreamhost and the rest of California falls into the sea next week, I made a complete backup of my site.
Posted by: Jay 
on July 10, 2005 8:58 PM
