{"id":3963,"date":"2015-09-18T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T23:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2015-09-18T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T23:30:05","slug":"zombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3963","title":{"rendered":"Zombie"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Minecraft<\/a>

Minecraft Zombie<\/p><\/div>\n

A backup saved my butt again. It is also the golden rule of computer data and programming. Save, save, save.<\/p>\n

I was just working here on my Ramblin’ Dan (.org) blog. I contribute to it quite often as I consider it my base of operations. It’s like a personal diary. I am not sure exactly what I did wrong, I had several things on my computer desktop open at the same time. I was poking around in the website administrative back end at the theme files and also had Filezilla and Adobe Photoshop open. I was adding a couple of new pictures for the banner on the website. Those are all pictures I have personally captured. I was checking the requirement for the pixel height and width required. (1300×160)<\/p>\n

I apparently clicked on something wrong at the wrong (or was it the right) time. A lot of what I had open went away. I think I was trying to do that. When I clicked on the URL to re-open Ramblin’ Dan, I received an Internal Server Error 500<\/a> notice!<\/p>\n

OH! NO!!!<\/b><\/p>\n

What have I done now?<\/p>\n

My mind goes into a spin trying to understand that I had just lost YEARS of effort if I don’t find a way to fix this error. It’s calmer minds that find the solution. I at least knew it was something I did while messing with the website theme.<\/p>\n

I tried several file replacements that did nothing to fix the error. Then I remembered I did a total site back up of the files and also the database about a week ago. So I made a SWAG<\/a> that if I did a restore back to the server and let it replace all the files that I had saved, it would not delete the weeks work that was added since the backup. The the database should still be good.<\/p>\n

So that is what I did. I installed over 7,000 files* from the previous backup as \u201creplace existing\u201d. My SWAG was that this could fix whatever file I messed up.<\/p>\n

Yeah Boy! It worked like a perfect plan. The website booted with all the latest articles I had posted still intact. I was saved from the edge of disaster yet again.<\/p>\n

I am going to have to stop doing these silly tricks that break my all my hard work. I am getting too old to have so much fun raising the dead\u2026 Zombies!<\/p>\n

* Yes, typical Content Management Systems like WordPress<\/strong> often have this or more files.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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