{"id":249,"date":"2008-08-07T22:54:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T04:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iohelix.net\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-08-07T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T04:56:24","slug":"site-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/site-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"site backups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my wife and I started using a blog again, I was thinking it would be cool to go back in my archives and grab the old posts I had on here years ago, and try to find a way to import them back into the blog.<\/p>\n

So I started looking in my backups folder for a database dump that would have the blog posts in it, and I searched and searched, but could not find the most recent version of it.\u00a0 I have a coupe older ones, and some really old ones, but not any that were from right before I deleted the blogs.<\/p>\n

I don’t know why I didn’t make a backup of them, or if I did, I don’t know why I didn’t keep it in a safe place, but I didn’t.<\/p>\n

So I jumped on the wayback machine<\/a>, and found one more post that I didn’t have in my backup.\u00a0 I imported the backup into my database at home, installed the version of WordPress I had when the posts were made (also via the wayback machine), and posted that last one that was missing.\u00a0 Then I installed the latest version of WordPress, made an export file, and imported them into this incarnation.<\/p>\n

So now I have posts that go back about 5 years (albeit very sporadically), with the possibility of a few missing that are probably gone for good, unless I happen to find an old dump somewhere that I didn’t know about, but I doubt it…\u00a0\u00a0 oh well.<\/p>\n

I’m off to make a backup of my site right now, and I’ll label it ‘Keep’, because obviously, the method I have now doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should start putting my site backups in Subversion…<\/p>\n

Anywho… enjoy the old posts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since my wife and I started using a blog again, I was thinking it would be cool to go back in my archives and grab the old posts I had on here years ago, and try to find a way to import them back into the blog. So I started looking in my backups folder … <\/p>\n

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