Dave Hildebrand.com » compression http://www.davehildebrand.com The IT Crowd Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:12:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Lesson Learned… http://www.davehildebrand.com/tech-help/a-lesson-learned/ http://www.davehildebrand.com/tech-help/a-lesson-learned/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:02:18 +0000 Dave http://www.davehildebrand.com/233/?p=52 I've been doing quite a bit of maintenance work on the site recently, updating to the latest version of WordPress, removing old unwanted plug-ins, updating plug-ins I do use, and the like.  Today I went into the database for the site and noticed some old tables from uninstalled plug-ins that were still present.  In my haste to remove them I made a cardinal sin.  I forgot to backup the database first.  Clearly stupid I know.  I had accidentally deleted a table that references the posts to categories and the last backup I had was from August 4th.  This backup was before the WordPress update and a bunch of posts & a few comments from last week have been lost.  I was able to save the couple of posts from today and Friday (I had browser windows open to the text that let me copy and paste them back), but the 3 posts on an open source compression application and baby updates. 

To catch you up on what I deleted I'm going to summarize:

  • Kris had 2 ultrasounds last week.  Baby girl was in the wrong position to get a good look at her spine so the second scan was needed.
  • 7-Zip is an open source application that I have used for a few months with great success.  It compresses/decompresses data quickly, into small archives and can open almost any of the popular compression formats.

Of course the originals were written with great eloquence and wit.  Let this be a lesson to you all, backup your data.

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