Comments on: holy disappearing blog entries

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:44:25 +0000

Another hearty thanks. The overview you presented of the solution was exactly the fix that I needed. My life was definitely flashing before my eyes as well.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:31:49 +0000

Thanks ever-so-much for this post. I’m much less tech-savvy than you, but I managed to fix the problem I was having with my blogs thanks to your documentation. Thanks!!!

By: Scott Evans

Scott Evans — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:29:06 +0000

I like to couple my techno-savvy with an uncomfortable paranoia about losing my work.

So I have a really simple MT template (in the “archive-related templates” section) that writes XML versions of all my blog entries every time I rebuild the site. Then I have a cron job at home that pulls down copies of all these files nightly. So if my server burns down, I’m covered, or if I just switch blog engines, I should have an easy-ish migration path. (that second part is a lesson learned from my move to MT from a home-grown system: don’t throw away the raw data.)

The template is here:
http://www.antisleep.com/templates/backup-all-xml.tmpl

And in MT’s weblog config/archiving page, I use an archive filename template like this:
xml/<$MTEntryDate format=”%Y-%m-%d”$>_<$MTEntryID zero_pad=”4″$>.xml

The cron stuff is a little more complicated for other reasons but a simple rsync command will do ya.

By: Jade Rubick

Jade Rubick — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:34:03 +0000

This is the main reason MySQL is problematic as a database. It’s great for many applications, but it doesn’t pass the ACID test (http://www.archwing.com/technet/technet_ACID.html).

So I think it’s not your fault. :)