HTYP:Current events
We had a major hard drive failure on the server last week, which had apparently been preceded by a massive failure to back things up properly for quite some time.
I should know by 11/28 or so whether the contents of the hard drive can be recovered; I've sent it off to a professional drive recovery place.
Yes, we have proper backups now. I need to set up a test server to make sure that the backups are sufficient to reconstruct everything if this should happen again -- but I have verified that all databases are being properly dumped to a separate drive every night.
In the meantime, I'm going to proceed on the worst-case assumption and begin rebuilding the site from cached copies of pages and anything else I can find. All of the cached pages I have saved (but not yet added back to the site) are in http://htyp.org/rescued -- if you know of any content that should be rescued and hasn't been, please email me at htyp-2024-11@hypertwins.org. Feel free to search Google's cache for the article:
- site:htyp.org keyword
To retrieve the cached copy, hover over the search result you want, and click on the grey right angle-bracket that appears off to the right side. You should see an image of the page appear -- possibly in its present form -- along with a "cached" link. If you click on that, you will get Google's cached copy.
More on this story as it develops.