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· Sunday, March 2, 2008 · 4 comments

My apologies to those who’ve been trying unsuccessfully all day to access the site. My hosting company turned routine hardware maintenance into an adventure which required complete restoration of the site from their own managed backup. This resulted in not only eight hours of downtime but the complete loss of all posts and comments from yesterday.

UPDATE: Working now to restore the old posts, which are still residing in my RSS feed. I’ll do my best; thankfully, it’s just a handful.

UPDATE: Done. Obviously, comments and trackbacks from the intervening period (roughly 3 a.m. Eastern Saturday through 3 p.m. Sunday) are history.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

  1. Bithead says:
    Sunday, 2 March 2008 at 15:40

    Sorry to see your problems, James. Glad you’re back, though.

  2. Steven Taylor says:
    Sunday, 2 March 2008 at 15:56

    I suspect you were thrilled to hear all of that.

  3. James Joyner says:
    Sunday, 2 March 2008 at 16:46

    Thanks, Bit.

    And, yeah, I was totally pumped to find out that they’d managed to screw the pooch on both the backup and the hardware install.

  4. Bithead says:
    Wednesday, 5 March 2008 at 12:06

    Isn’t there a DB Backup available in WordPress?

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