Starting Out Savvy » disaster. back-ups http://www.startingoutsavvy.com Life in Sensible Bites Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:04:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Importance of Backing Up http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2009/10/the-importance-of-backing-up/ http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2009/10/the-importance-of-backing-up/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:56:29 +0000 Jamie Lee http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/?p=366 If you happened to try to visit our site anytime between late last night and early this morning (yes, I’m giving you the specifics), then you probably noticed that it was down. I tried to make changes to the code so that all of you fabulous readers could see our tweets when, all of a sudden, I killed the site. It was terrifying! I thought that all of our posts were gone forever! I hoped and prayed for an undo button–why doesn’t everything in life have an undo button?– but it was gone. So, I started emailing every technologically savvy person that I know as well as posting on forums asking what to do. I felt like Carrie Bradshaw from Sex in the City when she gets a virus and the everything on her computer is lost forever.

Eventually, my brother, David, was able to get back to us and fix the site. David is our hero today but I’ve realized that, even though we don’t have too much material, back-ups are invaluable. I’m lucky that we’re learning this lesson after only 30 something posts rather than after 130 something. If you don’t know how to backup your WordPress site, then make a quick trip here to find out all the steps.

In tribute to David and his save-the-day move: here’s a picture of the two of us getting rained on at ACL!

David and Jamie Lee at ACL

Yay David! Thanks again!

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