Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - Posts

Back, minus content

Now *that* is annoying.

In January, the community server beta I was running unexpectedly timed out.  Unpleasant.  Last night, before installing the version 1.1 release, I looked at the content in the database.  It was stored in an odd, binary format, and rather than write a browser to get at it, I checked google.  Sure enough, all the content was cached happily on there, so cutting and pasting seemed easy.  Stupidly, at that opint, I went to bed, after deleting and recreating the database (necessary - there was no upgrade and it complained if objects existed).

Fifteen hours later, google has thrown away the cached items.  Four months of diary, effectively, gone.  And nothing on the wayback machine, either.

Count to ten...

Update: Sweet.  Feeddemon - my rss reader - cached the lot.  Colour me double-plus undismayed.