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The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
I’ve been writing a blog, in many forms, for a while now and I’ve said some fairly random shit over the years (I mean, lapagebuzz is a classic onto itself!). It caught my by surprise that my first post is over 10 years old (02/12/2013, to be exact), from when I imported my LiveJournal feed into WordPress. As such, I installed a widget that will select 5 random posts and display them in the sidebar, below the recent posts.
As part of my normal website maintenance, I have a cron script that backs up my whole website and wordpress database. I have now noticed that the file backup hasn’t been running since mid-november. That shouldn’t normally be a problem, until the time when you make a typo in a unix command that, instead of deleting files with a ‘_backup’ tag DELETES EVERY FUCKING FILE IN A DIRECTORY. I managed to kill the command before the whole lot of my new galleries got killed, but I lost four. Two were in a previous backup, one I could rebuild in short order. The last one will need some serious digging around to find the original files.
So kiddies, lesson for today is MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUPS ARE UP TO DATE!
As part of a tech talk series at work, I gave a presentation on blogging. Figured I’d just throw it up here for safekeeping.
I’m going to disable LJ comments as of today. If you want to leave comments, please do (!), but you’ll need to use the comment form on my WordPress blog using the links below.
Thank you,
The Management.
Current Mood: Aggravated
I go away for 2.5 days without net access and I have to read back 240 entries to catch up on my extended LJ friend page. This is after slogging through 200+ emails on my work inbox. Over dial-up.
I miss broadband, I really, really do.
I finally broke down and bought a shitload of icon space.
I'm suck a geek.
It's sad.