Comments on: I lost just about every file in my domain http://www.visible-form.com/blog/i-lost-just-about-every-file-in-my-domain/ Rich Rodecker's blog on flash, flex, actionscript, javascript, and php, with a dash of randomness Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:47:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: FlashApe » Blog Archive » Getting getbytesTotal for dynamically generated images http://www.visible-form.com/blog/i-lost-just-about-every-file-in-my-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-948 FlashApe » Blog Archive » Getting getbytesTotal for dynamically generated images Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:45:39 +0000 http://www.visible-form.com/blog/?p=3#comment-948 [...] 7:45 pm *this is a repost...I lost the original in the great blog disaster of '06. I went looking for this info and had to pull it off of google cache, so here it is again. [...] [...] 7:45 pm *this is a repost…I lost the original in the great blog disaster of ’06. I went looking for this info and had to pull it off of google cache, so here it is again. [...]

]]> By: Ryan http://www.visible-form.com/blog/i-lost-just-about-every-file-in-my-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Ryan Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:52:20 +0000 http://www.visible-form.com/blog/?p=3#comment-211 About 2 years ago a number of MM user groups had a similar problem with a host we were receiving free services from. The host went belly up, with whatever backups they had. Sadly, what I learned was that 'backups' that are made by your ISP are only useful if you have them on your own machine and have verified they are good. Just because they create (or claim they do) backups, doesn't mean they work, or that you will ever get them. There are scenarios where it doesn't matter how much you plead and beg, the data will not be made available. Backups are only backups if you have them and have verified them periodically. ISPs may not give them to you (they didn't make them, they erased them, they are bad, you pay your bills, they pay theirs, they don't have legal problems, ethical problems, etc.) Make your own backups! I learned my lesson. oh...and you get what you pay for in most things in life About 2 years ago a number of MM user groups had a similar problem with a host we were receiving free services from. The host went belly up, with whatever backups they had.

Sadly, what I learned was that ‘backups’ that are made by your ISP are only useful if you have them on your own machine and have verified they are good. Just because they create (or claim they do) backups, doesn’t mean they work, or that you will ever get them. There are scenarios where it doesn’t matter how much you plead and beg, the data will not be made available.

Backups are only backups if you have them and have verified them periodically. ISPs may not give them to you (they didn’t make them, they erased them, they are bad, you pay your bills, they pay theirs, they don’t have legal problems, ethical problems, etc.)

Make your own backups! I learned my lesson.

oh…and you get what you pay for in most things in life

]]> By: John Giotta http://www.visible-form.com/blog/i-lost-just-about-every-file-in-my-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-210 John Giotta Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:37:10 +0000 http://www.visible-form.com/blog/?p=3#comment-210 Dang dude that sucks! I was looking for the post titled "Flash Designer vs. Flash Developer workflow issues" probably the same day your server went AWOL. Dang dude that sucks!
I was looking for the post titled “Flash Designer vs. Flash Developer workflow issues” probably the same day your server went AWOL.

]]> By: rich http://www.visible-form.com/blog/i-lost-just-about-every-file-in-my-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-5 rich Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:08:58 +0000 http://www.visible-form.com/blog/?p=3#comment-5 thanks for taht archive.org link craig...at least i know i can scrape some stuff together if i wish. yeah i am really liking wordpress so far. thanks for taht archive.org link craig…at least i know i can scrape some stuff together if i wish.

yeah i am really liking wordpress so far.

]]> By: Campbell http://www.visible-form.com/blog/i-lost-just-about-every-file-in-my-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Campbell Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:46:41 +0000 http://www.visible-form.com/blog/?p=3#comment-4 Think WordPress 2 has a backup database press here feature ;oP think you might waer that button out now? Bummer dude! Think WordPress 2 has a backup database press here feature ;oP think you might waer that button out now? Bummer dude!

]]> By: Craig Babcock http://www.visible-form.com/blog/i-lost-just-about-every-file-in-my-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Craig Babcock Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:46:32 +0000 http://www.visible-form.com/blog/?p=3#comment-3 Sorry for your loss. Hope you are able to recover at least some of it. Archive.org appears to have at least some of your older content (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.visible-form.com/blog" rel="nofollow">blog</a>). Am using WordPress myself and have been pretty happy with it. Nice attention to detail, etc. Good luck! Sorry for your loss. Hope you are able to recover at least some of it. Archive.org appears to have at least some of your older content (blog).

Am using WordPress myself and have been pretty happy with it. Nice attention to detail, etc.

Good luck!

]]> By: phil douglas http://www.visible-form.com/blog/i-lost-just-about-every-file-in-my-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-2 phil douglas Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:42:29 +0000 http://www.visible-form.com/blog/?p=3#comment-2 Ouch! Ouch!

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