If you use Google Desktop or a browser which snapshots pages, could you please paste the last few days of our News tab into an email for me?
I’ve thoroughly b0rked some of the summaries on our News tab while carelessly editing the database by hand. Right now I’ve got only the last couple of pages saved.
The perpetrator will be thoroughly self-abused. Thanks in advance!
Update: Now fully restored using Google Desktop cache (thanks, Ashvin and others).
Backups manish... backups........
BRB while i backup mine... lol
Actually, using a SQL transaction would've prevented this. So would an editing script (rather than writing SQL by hand).
Google Cache is not helping either... and archive.org hasnt archived the mutiny!!!
Manish: Does the ISP keep a daily backup? most ISP's do... see if they can send you the backup.
Manish: Netcraft says that this domain uses linux.. you can setup a cron script that would FTP daily backups(you can diff them too) to an FTP server running on lets say your computer. that would helped a lot...
hopefully someone has it in google desktop...
Manish,
Wanted to let you know RocketPost is not even working.
I've done a partial restore and written that editing script so it won't happen again.
The scheduled, over-the-wire backups is a wonderful idea, thanks.
Kush, thanks, I'll mail you.
If the News section had an atom/rss feed - which it should! - it would be cached and archived by a million web 2.0 wannabe-next-Google crawlers by now :-)
The perpetrator will be thoroughly self-abused. Thanks in advance!
S&M? Or is it something else when one self-flagellates :)
I swear I did a double-take followed by a "N---- what?!" when I first read this.
But yes, I agree with poster #1. Back ups, yo. Sorry I can't help though; I use Firefox, though I think I'll look into this Google desktop. (didn't even know there was such a thing =X)
You know, technically you can't "self-abuse" someone else -- they can only do it to themselves.
Okay, in a manner of speaking I guess you can, but then it's not self-abuse, just "abuse". Also, I'm not sure how threatening to fondle someone into submission actually constitues a punishment, unless they're not into that kind of thing or they're grossly repulsed by you for some reason.
Manish, I think DDiA and I deserve a proper explanation of SM's official policy on self-abuse and the canoodling of willing victims.
Useless fact -- Did you know that you can't tickle yourself?
