By tsvenson on

My hosting provider performed a scheduled hardware update a few days ago. After that all my Drupal sites where having technical problems due to that they screwed up something with the databases.

When they sorted that out, I discovered the databases they had restored where more than a month old, thus a lot of work had vanished.

Drupal also complained that some modules didn't work properly as they had been updated in the last month, but of course the updates where gone in the db.

Initially I thought it would be a big f_cking unwanted task to get all working properly again.

Then, however, I thought that - Hey, Drupal keeps tabs on the module versions so I simply set it to maintenance mode and ran the update.php script. 26 updates had to be made, no complaints and hours/days of unwanted extra work disappeared from my future. Now its only a few smaller things needed to do to be back where I was.

Thanks everyone in the Drupal community for creating such a fantastic product.

Keep up the good work,
/thomas

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Comments

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WorldFallz commented

Thanks for posting-- and I'm glad everything worked out for you. But please, please, please, if you learn anything from this experience it should be that current backups are absolutely critical. I never trust this responsibility to a service provider-- they don't care whether or not your backups are current and viable.

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tsvenson commented

Hi WordFallz,

Oh, I know to well to take backups and I had one that was covering almost everything. Due to that I have moved house and a lot of other things it wasn't really that much that had changed on the site. I use the excellent Backup & Migrate module for this on all my sites.

Still, having to sort out this and learning how well Drupal copes with it just reinforce my decision to select Drupal as base for web work even more. That and being part of this fantastic community makes it a pleasure to work with.

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@tsvenson