Backups and e-mails
Yesterday I migrated this blog from Wordpress 2.5 to Wordpress 2.6, a nice and easy process as the website assured me. Inevitably for me something went wrong when i was updating the database which corrupted the database - don’t get me wrong i think this was a problem with corrupted data when i transferred the latest Wordpress over FTP as opposed to a Wordpress bug itself. Fortunately i had kept constant backups of my database using a combination of Bazaar and a simple bash script. This meant i could quickly re-import my database and be back online i was within a few minutes. The moral of this story is its worth backing up! If you wanted you could even have cron do it for you (if your server allows).
On another note since i was messing around upgrading and everything else i thought it would be a good idea to finally get a contact form up and running. So if anyone needs to contact me feel free to do so here.