When you're using computers, it's kind-of important to back up your work. Especially if you're doing an upgrade to the operating system, backing up to some sort of removeable media (CD-ROM, Zip disk or floppy) is essential.
Over the weekend, I attempted to upgrade the linux kernel on my server to fix a known security hole in the older kernel. Before doing so, I backed up my entire website to another hard drive on the same machine, then proceeded to turn the installer script loose - I'm not a linux guru and it seemed like it would be much easier to do a fresh install than to try to patch the old one.
Well, I had a switch set wrong in the installer or something - rather than just c:, it formatted and installed a new file system on every hard drive it found... when I went to copy my website back to var/www/ it wasn't there.
I spent most of Sunday rebuilding - there were a few pages I had to re-type from scratch - and have most of the commercial stuff back up. By the end of today I expect to have everything back, including the freebie construction project I mentioned in the Lighting Questions forum.
I saved ten minutes by not bothering to write a CD-ROM. UGH!
John
Over the weekend, I attempted to upgrade the linux kernel on my server to fix a known security hole in the older kernel. Before doing so, I backed up my entire website to another hard drive on the same machine, then proceeded to turn the installer script loose - I'm not a linux guru and it seemed like it would be much easier to do a fresh install than to try to patch the old one.
Well, I had a switch set wrong in the installer or something - rather than just c:, it formatted and installed a new file system on every hard drive it found... when I went to copy my website back to var/www/ it wasn't there.
I spent most of Sunday rebuilding - there were a few pages I had to re-type from scratch - and have most of the commercial stuff back up. By the end of today I expect to have everything back, including the freebie construction project I mentioned in the Lighting Questions forum.
I saved ten minutes by not bothering to write a CD-ROM. UGH!
John