In case you are wondering why my blog has reverted to January, I got this reply yesterday to an inquiry I sent to my host provider:
Hello,
Your server has had a hard drive failure. We are working to restore
everything. You site will be back ASAP.Thank you for your patience…
Being a patient man, I figure, OK, I’ll just wait until the issue is resolved and my blog restored. No big deal. But when an entire day passed and nothing was corrected, I shot another inquiry back. This time, I got this response:
Hello,
When the primary drive failed, it corrupted the partition on the secondary
drive which means that the only backup we have is the emergency backup. I
do apologize and wish there was something I do. If you have a backup, you
can restore it via cpanel.
Even my patience has its limits, and a month’s worth of work gone makes the Marmot a slightly less-than-happy camper. Thankfully, someone is being kind enough to email me my posts for the last month, but it’s going to take some work restoring everything, re-upgrading to v1.5, and redoing my template. I should have everything back to normal by Sunday evening, I hope.
I knew God would punish me for using cheats on Mercenaries’ Ace of Spades contract.
Anyway, to readers of this blog, I apologize sincerely.
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Is there a way for you to keep a local backup of your blog? In theory, you shouldn’t have to, after all that’s what you’re paying for (isn’t it?). But as you found out, shit happens.
I guess I should get on with backing up my database weekly or something like that as well. I know there are scripts out there that will do it for you and even email you a copy.
If you are ever interested in changing hosts, again, I would recommend POWWEB (referrer id added to link).
I’ve got all of your posts (and some comments on each) since 10/22 if you need them.
Isn’t this the second time you’ve gotten f__ked by your web hosting company? I’d say it’s time to move to a new company.
I am happy a shit eating korea lover got fucked. HAHAHAH
And I was so hoping to see the official announcement of Marmot Time Travel Technology(tm) having been perfected.
Then we could settle this Korgyo thing once and for all…
Make them hand over the hard disk in question. Korea is as good as it gets the area of data recovery, and far cheaper than the US.
Hey, Cranky Objectivist, that’s pretty funny! Alas, it wasn’t a wormhole that got that post up again. On the other hand (so to speak), if the Marmot had perfected time travel, no history would ever get settled, just constantly altered. Everybody could claim everyplace!
Jeffery Hodges
P.S. Sorry to hear of your annoying difficulty, Marmot.
Dump your host and go to “lunarpages”:http://www.lunarpages.com/ !
Well, bad days for bloggers… Recently some idiot attacked oranckay, and now… Well, but marmots are nomadic animals, aren’t they? May be, time to move to another provider indeed?
I’m surprised no one has yet suggested cyberwarfare, by NorK types (or more likely their ideological friends and/or paid agents in the south).
You are reputed to be the most popular English language blog for S. Korea, not so? As such, you publish your share of “derogatory” info about the North and its leaders.
Somewhere recently I read that the PRC is getting increasingly sophisticated at blocking unfavorable internet sites. Why wouldn’t they pass along any techniques learned to their North Korean friends?
I know nothing about web hosting, servers, etc, except what I read about from being on the internet. So — my hypothesis is vulnerable to technologically knowledgeable refutation.
However, it seems to me that if somebody wanted to take down your web site for a time, while “covering” their tracks, they’d try to “crash” a whole server rather than just trying to “block” you alone (something that could be easily traced back?)
Paul H., the email from the ISP said ” primary drive failed”. It was probably just a hard drive failure.
Although I’m surprised that it effected the secondary drive and made that unusable as well. The purpose of the mirrored secondary drives is to take over seamlessly if and when the first drive brakes. If this scheme doesn’t work (as in this case to my surprise), why bother having a second drive as a mirror? At any rate, mirroring 2 drives is not the best of solutions. They should at least have RAID-5 (3 drives) as a minimum for high powered servers.
Something is not right. I think they goofed and wiped your data (which was still good at that point) off of the secondary drive while trying to rebuild the disk configuration after the first disk crashed. I agree with others, you should start looking for another ISP. You shouldn’t trust anybody who has no daily backup and can’t recover seamlessly from a simple disk crash. If the disk crash happened to a competent ISP, you wouldn’t have even known about the hard disk crash. That’s simply poor service and very unprofessional.
Sorry to hear about it. I was worried it had crashed due to my frequent overlong comments. I have too much time on my hands these day. Best of luck to you….
Sorry to hear the news. I was going to ask what happened to the Fight the Curfew blog but you have enough on your plate already. Hope you get this fixed soon and with minimal impact. Outstanding site.
Total bummer Marmot. I’ll bet USFK wishes that would happen to the FreeFed’s ISP.
I have save the lee eun ju page from your blog last week… how can i sent it to you… i don’t see a email addresse ?
Love your blog, shame about what happened
As an ex IT guy, I wouldn’t trust your ISP. Losing a months work is very unprofessional of them.
As a wordpress user my self I can recommend an excellent backup script for Wordpress 1.5
http://weblogtoolscollection.c.....ersion-13/
It is a plug-in for Wordpress 1.5
It lets you backup all your entries in the Mysql database as well as your wordpress folder.
and like blinger said, for an ISP I also recommend POWWEB
Hi Marmot :). I have just had one of those. The numbskulls who run web mania lost my db and nearly one thousand comments. Fun.
This is why I never trusted technology; It betrays us so easily. Where were Marmot’s artfully translated English Korean news and witty, hilarious comments from all?
I’m waiting for the day when my online broker goes down and they have to ask how many shares I have. Guess it never works that way. Hang in there Marmot.