This one’s a little off topic, but it was a matter of great personal anxiety this morning so I thought I’d share … in case any of you do something similar.<\/p>\n
While puttering around this morning I hit the blog’s admin page and saw an update to the theme I use was available. \u00a0I try to keep things up to date, I never know what bug fix or security fix needs to be included (I don’t work on web development professionally and it’s a lot to stay on top of otherwise) so I’m pretty diligent about applying updates.<\/p>\n
The item database page is on a\u00a0separate\u00a0template so that it can run the scripts\u00a0necessary\u00a0for querying the back end database and what not, and as some of you have seen, I have put a half decent amount of time into getting it working.<\/p>\n
After applying the theme update, all that was gone. \u00a0Let that sink in… gone… As a work in progress I haven’t backed it up anywhere and I’ve been working through a ssh shell and writing the script in vi … no auto backups anywhere.<\/p>\n
Did I say gone? \u00a0A quick web search revealed I had just been inducted into the “Theme updates delete the folder and install a new copy from a fresh archive” club. \u00a0Yes, it deletes the whole damn folder instead of doing some sort of selective update. \u00a0Well Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the Shepherds … who the hell designs this stuff like that without a warning??<\/p>\n
Thankfully my hosting provider does nightly backups and I was able to restore the file from their backup … the guy on the phone used a “teach a man to fish” approach so I’ll be able to do this without the hour long panic attack should it ever happen again.<\/p>\n
… and it will …<\/p>\n
… because I’ll backup today …<\/p>\n
… and tomorrow …<\/p>\n
… but once I feel safe again, the files are on their own! :-><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"