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Wordpress The Software Behind The Blog Crashed And Our Backups Were Somehow Faulty. So A Lot Of Data Was Lost

Posted by Munashe Gumbonzvanda | Posted in TechMasai | Posted on 04-02-2010

Tags: TechMasai, Techmasai Disaster

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Kaboom went our data

A sad incidence occurred yesterday with the TechMasai blog. What happened is that the software, Wordpress crashed on us and we could not change or affect anything.

When we did re-install the software and added a backup, the backup would not work due to some unforeseen problems. We then had to add an old backup, which is present on the platform at this moment.

The effect has been severe. Out of about 340 posts, we lost about 280 posts. The comments are still visible, but they are no longer of use substantially, since the original blog posts have been lost.

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