Comments on: You’re totally going to lose everything

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:08:28 +0000

Is the blog stuff still up on the old webhost? If so, I’m sure it can be recovered.

You SHOULD be able to export your blog from one Wordpress install, and import it into the new one.. either via an RSS export/import or by a database (SQL) export/import.

Basically, as long as the old site still exists (even if it’s hidden) on the old hosting place, then yes, that can be recovered.

If now… well, not sure where it would have gone wrong, but it kind of sounds like the export failed. I guess you could try the import again…?

By: Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D.

Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D. — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:09:36 +0000

I’m ashamed to admit it, but in my eagerness to switch a website from a former host to GoDaddy, I lost the blog attached to it. I was feeling confident that when I uploaded the blog that I had exported it would all be there. Not! Just the draft posts were there, not the published ones. While my files are local, it seems that the blog posts disappear into never-never land. Is it possible to recover those blog posts?

I use an external hard drive and recently signed up with an online backup service, but I’m still not sure I’m saving my WordPress blog published posts.

Help.

By: Maryann Devine

Maryann Devine — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:48:13 +0000

Johnny, it was really the warranty issue that disturbed me — that, according to that article, Mozy can disavow damages due to its own negligence…

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:34:34 +0000

True. Although I’d still do the dump to a file on your computer just in case, every once in a while. Not sure if I mention it in this vid, but it’s in the one in MTIYB if not.

By: Sean Oliver

Sean Oliver — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:28:14 +0000

I didn’t even think of this. Thankfully its pretty much one click with godaddy.

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By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:59:04 +0000

The security issue is the only one that even raises an eyebrow for me. Honestly, if it concerns you, I’d go with picking your own key and guarding it with your life. I think that some of the security issues he raises are valid, but I think it also implies a whole lot of crooked cooperation at any online backup service to make it work.

And I also come back to: Why do I care? I have nothing illegal in my backups, and there’s nothing in there that could harm me financially. I don’t have text files filled with passwords or bank numbers or anything.

It reminds me of a story my dad tells. He lives in Philadelphia, and at one point, he thought about buying a gun to keep at home for protection. He’s not a “gun guy,” so this was significant.

A friend of his talked to him about it and said, “But do you really want to live that way, always in fear?”

He didn’t get the gun.

That story… or any issue of security… is easy to misinterpret. People think, “But he could just HAVE the gun and never use it. Better to be prepared.” Same also for online security. But that’s not the point. The gun symbolized that he was willing to live in fear, always watching his back. Not getting it was an act going with the flow.

Because you can never catch every threat to you, your security, your data, whatever. Never. The only way to be 100% protected in every way is to live in a concrete-walled fort and never communicate with the outside world.

That’s a bit philosophical of an answer, but my thought is that there will ALWAYS be something to worry about. If this is addressed, people will say, “What about hackers?” And if that’s addressed, someone will say, “But what if you lose your pass key?” And if that’s addressed, people will say, “XYZ!”

I look at it this way: Complex schemes at Mozy aside, it frankly seems more likely to me that someone would simply come into my house and steal my laptop and would have access to everything without having to even bother with encryption. And in that case, not only would they have my stuff…. but I’d also have no way to get it back.

Acceptable risk, IMO.

By: Maryann Devine

Maryann Devine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:26:53 +0000

Johnny, thanks for your recommendation. I took a look at Mozy a few months ago when someone recommended it to me. It has lots of favorable reviews from credible sources, but when I came across this one, I paused:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9752350-33.html?tag=mncol;txt

Now, this review is from 2007, but I can’t easily find anything on Mozy’s site to reassure me that these issues are resolved.

What do you think?