Odd Bits - Oh C**k I deleted my site Print E-mail
Written by Richard Smith   
Monday, 01 June 2009

Oh c**k, I accidently deleted the database for my website.

Sort of luckily I have a backup a few days old but it is missing the latest content.

Will try to sort the missing content asap.

I can't stress the importance of backups!

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 1 Backup to gmail
Written by Ade website, on 20-06-2009 11:13
Hi,  
 
just wanted to mention a technique I use, and thats an outomated daily backup to my gmail account. I originally got this from an article someone else had done, and adapted it.  
 
It dumps two databases, compresses them, encrypts them and sends it to my gmail account 
 
#!/bin/sh 
DATE=`date +%F-%R`; 
BZFILE=/$DATE.sql.bz2; 
GPGFILE=/$BZFILE.gpg; 
mysqldump db_wiki --password="password" -u wikiusername > /tmp/wiki.sql; 
mysqldump db_wordpress --password="password" -u wpusername > /tmp/blog.sql; 
tar -cjf $BZFILE /tmp/*.sql; 
gpg --always-trust --encrypt -r This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it $BZFILE; 
echo 'MySQL backup is attached ' | mutt -a $GPGFILE -s 'Server backup' This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  
rm $GPGFILE; 
rm $BZFILE; 
rm /tmp/*.sql;
 2 Written by Richard website, on 02-06-2009 19:11
No mate it wasn't. To justify the site and the server it's hosted on existence I use it for testing. I accidently deleted the database whilst deleting a few test ones :-( 
 
It looks like I lost some photos, an article and your last comment from the site. Could have been worse.
 3 Yikes
Written by Ade website, on 02-06-2009 10:06
Darn, thats not good !

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