Apparently my host's servers got hacked over the weekend, and that crashed my site and a whole slew of other folks' sites as well. Every customer who had signed up within the last month has had to recreate his/her site and reload his/her data. Fortunately for me, I had backups of all my web pages, and I make these entries in Notepad and then cut/paste into MT, so I had it relatively easy.
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Posted by Linkmeister at June 17, 2002 10:57 PMOn that note, I am backing up my MT entries! I still miss my Feb - March entries and it hurts to think they went into that cosmic rubbish can. :(
Posted by: bunny at June 18, 2002 02:47 AMYeah, I feel better than most would in this boat, I'm sure. I'm missing the entry that announced the dog's exit from surgery because I entered it directly into MT without composing in Notepad first, and maybe a couple of others, but still...
MT has an "export" function which may allow delimiting by date, so you could have separate files for each month.
Posted by: Linkmeister at June 18, 2002 08:45 AMThe best way to back up your MT files is to use the export function however often you feel it needs to be done, but especially after an important entry has been made. Save it as mt.htm (as a "html text only" file, not "html complete" or else it will save your images each time and everything) in a folder on your computer or disk. Each time you do this it will save all entries made from day one to day last, but if you save it with the same file name and ext. every time it will override the one before. Therefore, you never have more than one file to worry about. I plan to do this with all MT tools in the future on a weekly basis to keep from losing more than seven days worth of entries at a time. And of course, everyone should copy their template files and css files as soon as they create their blogs or make major changes in the design. Then all you have to do is pop open the editor, then use paste and copy to restore your templates.
Okay, I'm done now ... :)
Posted by: Lee at June 18, 2002 09:15 AMOh, except I meant to say welcome back, Linky. I feel as though my surfing rhythm has been restored now. :)
Posted by: Lee at June 18, 2002 09:18 AMUseful tip, Lee! I wondered about the file name issue. I'm very glad to be back! ;)
Posted by: Linkmeister at June 18, 2002 09:33 AMYou weren't a Boy Scout in a former life, were you??
Posted by: shelley at June 18, 2002 10:25 AMLOL, Shelley! Yeah, I was, but I only got to 2nd class rank before the entire troop folded! Scarred for life, that's me! ;)
Posted by: Linkmeister at June 18, 2002 10:39 AMWelcome back, Linky! I love MT! I thought I read somewhere that Ben and Mena are working on an automatic backup function.
Posted by: ali at June 18, 2002 07:07 PM