Maybe a dozen posts are gone from BloodhoundBlog, along with around 400 comments, 300 of them about forced versus open registration. We lost a couple dozen engenu pages as well, along with the photos that make them up.
I treated this as a simple hardware swap, but it turns out that our incremental back-ups were failing all week. I was insufficiently paranoid, alas.
Contributors, if you have copies of your posts, you can re-enter them. If not, they’re gone.
Everyone: You have my apologies.
Further notice: We lost BloodhoundBlog.net, and I mean all of it. None of the backups of the database will restore, so it is gone for good. I’ve not been delighted with it, overall, for the past few months, so I think I’m not going to start over. If you had serious content there, I’m sorry but it’s gone. If you had an older Scenius scene running there (I had several), rebuild it at Scenius.net. Very sorry…
Scott Gaertner says:
Those committed to growth understand pain is a part of the process. You obviously have a sympathetic audience in this group of early adopters. Vaya con Dios amigo.
September 1, 2009 — 11:44 am
Ian Greenleigh says:
I was going to write something pithy, but then I thought that you actually might be pretty bummed about this, as I would be. It might seem trivial to an outsider, but you’ve put an amazing amount of work into this BloodHoundBlog community, and it really is a shame to lose such an interesting and relevant debate. Maybe this is an opportunity to reflect on the Reger vs. antiReger issue and start over.
September 1, 2009 — 12:36 pm
Mark Madsen says:
That sucks, but I understand. We lost around 200 new blogs and 400 members within the first week of moving one of our platforms over to BuddyPress due to a server glitch.
September 1, 2009 — 12:47 pm
Eric Bramlett says:
I found a cache of the registration post on yahoo. Here it is:
http://www.bramblog.com/registration-blog-post-w-comments_files/
Greg – let me know if you’d rather host it, as it’s your content.
Also, check out wp-db-backup. I have it email me a DB backup every day (the other option is to save it to the server, but I’d rather have it backed up on my machine and backblaze.)
Sorry about the content – that sucks. You can probably find the rest of it on google/yahoo caches.
September 1, 2009 — 1:02 pm
Louis Cammarosano says:
This is unfortunate and ironic
I recall Greg’s countless admonishments of posting your content on third party web sites:
They control it, you don’t. Set up your own site.
Generally however, third parties have back up systems.
I guess if you control it you take the risk of losing it.
oops.
September 1, 2009 — 1:40 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Generally however, third parties have back up systems.
Very helpful, Louis. We had weekly backups with daily incrementals. But since we run on only one server, and since that server was failing for a while, we lost more than we needed to. There was human error at the host, and I uncharacteristically put too much faith in the support staff at the host. For example, I could have backed-up three WP DB’s and a dozen folders last night and spared us 90% of what we lost. The proper solution is not to depend on vendors — I did depend on the vendor — but to deal with vendors who are multiply-redundant in the cloud.
September 1, 2009 — 2:07 pm
Al Lorenz says:
There still seems to be something going on with Scenius sites, but you probably know that 🙂
Those issues are never much fun but I sure appreciate all you do!
September 1, 2009 — 1:41 pm
Greg Swann says:
All of BloodhoundBlog.net is gone, and seemingly so is Scenius.net. I’ll see if the latter can be restored.
Urf…
September 1, 2009 — 1:53 pm
Greg Swann says:
No, Scenius.net will be back up shortly. BloodhoundBlog.net is DOA, alas.
September 1, 2009 — 2:00 pm
Greg Swann says:
Scenius.net is back to life and seems to be working fine. BloodhoundBlog.net is dead, dead, dead. If you had Scenius scenes there, you will need to rebuild them at Scenius.net. Very sorry…
September 1, 2009 — 4:34 pm
Louis Cammarosano says:
Greg
Unfortunate any way you look at it
September 1, 2009 — 2:10 pm
Cheryl Johnson says:
Sorry! That is painful.
I’ll offer a special blessing for bloodhoundblog.net; your work on bhb.net started me on my own personal WP MU adventure.
…Google cache has Teri’s LOVE post minus the comments http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:-53_qZJC3QgJ:www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/%3Fp%3D9661+love+in+the+time+of+obama+bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
September 1, 2009 — 3:44 pm
Teri says:
I hope you didn’t lose the Implied acusationn and Cultivate Indifference? Some of the posts that have become old friends as I visit and revisit.
September 1, 2009 — 5:54 pm
Greg Swann says:
> I hope you didn’t lose the Implied acusationn and Cultivate Indifference? Some of the posts that have become old friends as I visit and revisit.
Bless you. Thank you. Nothing posted prior to August 24th was lost from BHB.
September 1, 2009 — 6:09 pm
Don Reedy says:
Teri,
Ditto
Ditto
September 1, 2009 — 7:13 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Greg – let me know if you’d rather host it, as it’s your content.
Thanks. Your call. If you want, you can post it in a new entry, maybe with a “more” tag to keep the length on the front page manageable.
September 2, 2009 — 8:04 am
Rodil San Mateo says:
Ouch. Best of luck in putting things back together.
Does anyone remember the title or author of Monday’s (August 31 2009) post? The topic was using video for SEO or something similar. I saw the headline but didn’t get a chance to read it. If someone has that information, I’d like to contact the author and ask if they can repost that. Thanks.
September 2, 2009 — 10:42 am
Ian Greenleigh says:
Rodil-
I think it was Ryan Hartman.
September 2, 2009 — 10:46 am
Brad Coy says:
Serious bummer. My scenius stills seems to be all there, just not getting updated…
I did have a blog on bloodhound.net on building business. It was an infant with only a hand full of posts. If someone could point me in the direction of finding a cache online, it would be much appreciated. I don’t think I saved drafts of those posts anywhere else.
September 2, 2009 — 12:57 pm
Cheryl Johnson says:
Rodi,
It was Ryan Hartman.
I actually printed Ryan’s post out, so I have a dead tree version of it, if by some chance Ryan doesn’t have a draft saved. 🙂
Brad,
Typing cache: yourblog.com in the google search blog should find some of it….
September 2, 2009 — 1:12 pm
Brad Coy says:
Cheryl,
’tis why you are the Queen… much obliged, as always 🙂
September 2, 2009 — 1:29 pm
Wayne Henderson says:
Does anyone remember the name of the software that Jeff Brown and Russell Shaw uses? They both mentioned it in the comments on one the recent posts (by Jeff I think) and I’d really like to find it.
September 2, 2009 — 1:34 pm
Eric Bramlett says:
@Brad – just google “site:mysite.bloodhoundblog.net” and it will return all of the URLs that google has indexed. Then, click the “cached” link at the bottom right of each search result: http://screencast.com/t/fpLQ0RmG
September 2, 2009 — 7:38 pm
Brad Coy says:
Thanks Eric. I was able to scrap up everything just short of a few pictures over to another blog I had.
Also, don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but I just switched my GoogReader feed to public which has all the posts and comments if anyone want’s another way to grab some of that data. It has rss as well, which might facilitate importing.
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15873540840325479174%2Flabel%2FBHB?c=CLmp77_70ZwCmake that feeds:
Posts – http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15873540840325479174%2Flabel%2FBHB%20posts
Comments – http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15873540840325479174%2Flabel%2FBHB%20comments
September 2, 2009 — 11:19 pm
Brian Brady says:
“Does anyone remember the name of the software that Jeff Brown and Russell Shaw uses?”
I think you’re asking about REST:
http://www.realestatesuccesstools.com/REST/REST/index.html
September 2, 2009 — 11:43 pm
Cheryl Johnson says:
Thank you Brad! Excellent!!!
It occurs to me that setting up RSS Feeds of one’s own content and comment streams could be an important and useful part of a backup strategy.
Probably easier to use and more reliable than some backup software that’s out there.
September 3, 2009 — 3:33 am
Barry Cunningham says:
Greg, were you using WordPress MU for the Blood puppies blogs? If so was it proven to be unstable or was it some other problem? I have been thinking of doing a blog network but was wondering if wmu would work.
September 5, 2009 — 9:49 pm
Greg Swann says:
We lost BHB.net because the database was damaged as a hard disk slowly died. WPMU is an excellent solution for building a lot of weblogs very quickly. The downside is that WPMU installations are spam-bait unless you wall them up fairly tightly. This is why I didn’t resurrect BHB.net.
September 6, 2009 — 6:48 am
Cheryl Johnson says:
Barry,
I learned a few techniques to thwart the computer-spambot registrations on my WPMU blogs … BUT there is NO way to stop the human spam sign-ups. And human spam sign-up seems to be a growing cottage industry. People are paid some small amount of money for every spam blog they create for some dubious advertiser.
I disabled self-registration on all of my WPMU sites. If someone wants a blog on one of my Mu sites, they have to email me. On the other hand, I can crank out multiple sites for myself (think single property sites, local niche stuff) in two winks and a flash….
September 10, 2009 — 7:14 pm