Lesson learned, I lost my all sites today
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Fardin2012
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- Aug 5, 2015
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So to be clear you were using dedicated server with single disk? In raid-0?
And were you not monitoring drive health?
You sir, you have got balls of steel.
I have like 3 copies of backups which are taken daily. This allows me to sleep peacefully.
My biggest mistake was storing all backups in same server, now after losing everything I subscribed wasabi. Starting everything again.
Mukeshwar Singh
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Bro, don't worry, a bit of work, but you can recover them all, but make sure you do it asap. If you make any delays, you'll really lose all.
One way that most will tell is to use archive.org, which I will recommend as the last resort. What I will recommend is -
1. Go to google, type site:your_site
2. Now, the google URL will appear like - https://www.google.com/search?q=site%(blah blah)
3. Add "num=100&" after the "search?" Like this https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site%(blah blah)
4. The above method will show 100 pages at once. Open a spreadsheet, copy all the URLs there.
5. Then go to each URL and pre-add "cache:" before each URL.
6. For example "cache:https://xyz.com" It basically shows the cache saved by google the last time it visited your site.
7. Do CMD + P or CTRL + P and continue saving each page on your Desktop and later when all sites are copied. Do copy-pasting all the content.
8. The reason you don't publish sooner is that as google tries to visit more and more URLs of yours, it may start saving the 404 or other pages, so act now.
If however, you couldn't find a particular page this way, go to archive.org and try to search.
Best of luck.
And sorry for bad English.
One way that most will tell is to use archive.org, which I will recommend as the last resort. What I will recommend is -
1. Go to google, type site:your_site
2. Now, the google URL will appear like - https://www.google.com/search?q=site%(blah blah)
3. Add "num=100&" after the "search?" Like this https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site%(blah blah)
4. The above method will show 100 pages at once. Open a spreadsheet, copy all the URLs there.
5. Then go to each URL and pre-add "cache:" before each URL.
6. For example "cache:https://xyz.com" It basically shows the cache saved by google the last time it visited your site.
7. Do CMD + P or CTRL + P and continue saving each page on your Desktop and later when all sites are copied. Do copy-pasting all the content.
8. The reason you don't publish sooner is that as google tries to visit more and more URLs of yours, it may start saving the 404 or other pages, so act now.
If however, you couldn't find a particular page this way, go to archive.org and try to search.
Best of luck.
And sorry for bad English.
We do daily DB backups and file backups every couple of days on the same server, but separate drives. From time to time, we do full off-site backup of the main backup.
In your case, if the NVMe has only power related issues, you can get a specialist to restore all the data from the mem chips. It is quite expensive though. Takes time too as those are quite busy.
In your case, if the NVMe has only power related issues, you can get a specialist to restore all the data from the mem chips. It is quite expensive though. Takes time too as those are quite busy.
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You lost the sites, but don't forget, the skills are still there
Hope you do well brother
Hope you do well brother
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take a quick action.
and try to recover as much as you can from wayback, google cache, and content and other data you receive from your team/writer/ etc.
and try to recover as much as you can from wayback, google cache, and content and other data you receive from your team/writer/ etc.
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B A C K U P Y O U R S T U F F.
Sorry for you, OP. You just learned a valuable lessons, but the price was very high.
On the other hand, as some members already asked before, have you tried to recover (at least a part) of your content, with WayBack Machine and Google cache? What about the sites? Have you created them, or you hired someone else? In any case, do you have any backup archive inside the pc, or saved somewhere else? (I am talking about the blank sites, not the entire sites, with content ). Try to find any way to restore something...anything.
MoonStarz
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Sorry for you, It happen to me but was more like a hobby, I was trying to do a small server just for personal mostly for media and friends to share videos, y was learning and working when I lost everything, the work of months gone, few things were savbed in my computer other lost in the computer server, I just lost interest but is a lesson we all learn at some point, hope you can get to the point you were.
- Nov 25, 2017
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That is really bad news - and the reason backups do exist
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Thank you for writing such a detailed and useful reply. It will not only help OP but for other community members too. Really appreciate your efforts.
@Fardin2012 Really sorry to hear about your plight. Indeed a big lesson learnt with high price. Indeed it is quite essential to take regular backups of our data. Hope you will get your sites restored soon. All the best mate!
Mukeshwar Singh
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My pleasure, i hope he did followed my method
or the advanced version of using this method is using python code to automate the whole process, you can easily do that with Selenium, and Beautiful soup.
And using selenium headless will even increase the speed.
Fardin2012
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Thanks to all, your tips helped me alot, within last few days I able to restore 5 sites. I installed a new dedicated server with raid 1 and created offsite autobackup to 2 different location (wasabi and a storage box from hetzner). I dont think I can restore my PAA sites becasue I dont found enough data on webarchive or in google cache.
Tatjana Tana
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- Feb 22, 2017
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I know what it feels like. Still I am very dissapiointed cause I lost everything from my 4T hdd, I formated accidentally. I havent got any sucess with recovery programs. Can anyone suggest me some good recovery program, cause i still have hope?
Wish u all the best. Guess we all learned the lesson.
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HisokaLover
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Good God, sorry to hear , mate.