Website gone

[Anomie]

Mine's apparently been wiped out, too. I can access cPanel and WP, but all my content and plugins/customization are extinct. What I see is an empty WP page with a default theme.

Any chance of this content being found and restored?

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It looks like it was restored to some point last spring.

 

[Genesis]

I've just found out myself Anomie. No chance at all. I've done some hard work on one of my sites and looks as though I've lost all of it too.

Last available backup is 5 May 2015, which is the one you have.

I'd encourage everyone to immediately work on what they have with updating the WP script and plugins of their Websites. It's taken us back to where we were with our Websites on 5 May 2015 so ALL of the scripts and plugins are HUGELY out of date.

 

[pan1]

How about restore the data using Daily Backup? Its said that "Backups are stored on a different cloud server".

 

[Genesis]

How about restore the data using Daily Backup? Its said that "Backups are stored on a different cloud server".

I was hoping you were going to miss that one, but yes, that is my question too. It hasn't been answered yet, but probably will be soon. As soon as I have a better understanding about cPremote, I'll let you know. I also thought it was remote - like in a cloud.

 

[pan1]

Allright, at least we still have a hope. :drinks:

 

[Anomie]

Good grief...

OK, I'll start over from scratch. I was still having some problems getting configurations/graphics debugged, so I was not even 100% up, but I lost a lot of essays and notes in drafts.

Question: Is there a plugin that uploads a backup to a user's own cloud/FTP?

 

[Genesis]

Good grief...

OK, I'll start over from scratch. I was still having some problems getting configurations/graphics debugged, so I was not even 100% up, but I lost a lot of essays and notes in drafts.

Thanks for the positive attitude Anomie. That means a lot.

Question: Is there a plugin that uploads a backup to a user's own cloud/FTP?

I know of two free plugins. Duplicator Plugin. That is the simplest one. Then if you want to upload backups to multiple destinations then UpdraftPlus. UpdraftPlus is usually what people with multiple Websites use. Duplicator is simpler, for maybe a couple or more Websites. I like duplicator as I like simplicity.

 

[Anomie]

Thanks for the positive attitude Anomie. That means a lot.

Haw. In my entire life, I think that's the first time anyone's ever said that to me, or anything like it.

I don't have a positive attitude, I'm just too burned out on improbable trainwrecks to have any emotional response left in me:

The past month has been a disaster, starting with my "real" business mail account at "high security" safe-mail.net in Tel Aviv being taken down for three weeks due to that disastrous hack they took (apparently from an Iranian government cyberwar team), which cost me a lot of money and led several people to think I had actually died...then after about eight years of no problems, Facebook abruptly kicked me off on a "real name" beef and I lost all that content...then I lost a bunch of mail on a new provider's site that crashed.

Seriously, I've been on the Internet since 1985 and I've never seen a run of trouble like this. :huh:

 

[Genesis]

Thanks for the positive attitude Anomie. That means a lot.

Haw. In my entire life, I think that's the first time anyone's ever said that to me, or anything like it.

I don't have a positive attitude, I'm just too burned out on improbable trainwrecks to have any emotional response left in me:

The past month has been a disaster, starting with my "real" business mail account at "high security" safe-mail.net in Tel Aviv being taken down for three weeks due to that disastrous hack they took (apparently from an Iranian government cyberwar team), which cost me a lot of money and led several people to think I had actually died...then after about eight years of no problems, Facebook abruptly kicked me off on a "real name" beef and I lost all that content...then I lost a bunch of mail on a new provider's site that crashed.

Seriously, I've been on the Internet since 1985 and I've never seen a run of trouble like this. :huh:

WOW! :shock:

I now see what you mean with no emotional response left. Guess we got lucky then. I'm glad you're out of Facebook though. I can't stand Facebook.

 

[hitterman]

Dear Anomie, use this tool below to backup your files to Google Drive or Dropbox etc.

- Create a whole ZIP archive of your public_html.
- Move the archive to domain's root directory so that it can be accessible from www.yourdomain.com/yourbackfile.zip

- Now use this Tool
http://ctrlq.org/save/

- Sign in using Google Account. Select your desired Cloud service, authorize your cloud service, enter your details and then save

Because of this tool, I, at least have a 100% backup of my sites till 12th december.


Please Note: This is not my site, it's developed by India's IT expert Amit Agrawal.

 

[Anomie]

An interesting compensation is that the new "Twenty Sixteen" Wordpress minimalist theme is almost exactly what I've been looking for for the past ten years or so. I've probably looked at and rejected five thousand themes -- easy.

If I can get my simple page graphics problems cleared up (I got some bad advice that didn't work), I'm going to be way ahead of what I had before, when I was trying to kludge a buggy third-party theme to do what I wanted by stripping out features it didn't want to let go of without creating problems. "Twenty Sixteen" is near-perfect.

 

[Genesis]

An interesting compensation is that the new "Twenty Sixteen" Wordpress minimalist theme is almost exactly what I've been looking for for the past ten years or so. I've probably looked at and rejected five thousand themes -- easy.

Well, very acutely remembering that historic thread that went through so many posts recommending theme after theme, and none coming up with the good for you, this had me exploding with laughter .... :heartylaugh:

I'm now curious myself. I really liked Twenty Thirteen for having more than one navigation bar and being a really great theme to do a child theme on. But I'm going to look at Twenty Sixteen as well. :good:

 

[Anomie]

I'm now curious myself.

There's almost nothing there.

It's the barest WP default theme I've ever seen. You can add to it, but you don't have to strip a bunch of garbage off of it.

I'm totally amazed.

 

[Genesis]

OK, now I REALLY have to see it. When I update my WordPress sites (still have to get to that), I'll load one. I'll report back here.

 

[drxgrey]

Mine were gone for sure, because I just signed up not long ago. But to see others are experiencing the difficulties, I feel bad for everyone :blush:

 

[Anomie]

that is my question too. It hasn't been answered yet, but probably will be soon. As soon as I have a better understanding about cPremote, I'll let you know. I also thought it was remote - like in a cloud.

Only if you're paying for it, as I understand their website. I might be missing something. [shrug]

 

[Genesis]

that is my question too. It hasn't been answered yet, but probably will be soon. As soon as I have a better understanding about cPremote, I'll let you know. I also thought it was remote - like in a cloud.

Only if you're paying for it, as I understand their website. I might be missing something. [shrug]

OK here's what I understand about the remote backups that went wrong. The system for creating those remote backups is on the backup disk. That backup disk was failing for months without noticing it. It looked as though it was working - yet the backups were failed backups. When Gigarank tried to extract those backups they were null and void. If you check DJB's post today, he's also following this up with cPremote.
http://www.gigarocket.net/forum/thread-5456.html

 

[Anomie]

- Create a whole ZIP archive of your public_html.
- Move the archive to domain's root directory so that it can be accessible from www.yourdomain.com/yourbackfile.zip

- Now use this Tool
http://ctrlq.org/save/

- Sign in using Google Account. Select your desired Cloud service, authorize your cloud service, enter your details and then save

I'm sort of confused by this process. Is there a way of semi-automatically preparing the backup .ZIP on a scheduled basis? I was under the impression there were plugins that would do this.

 

[Genesis]

Probably. Thing is that cPremote is licensed and Gigarank paid for the service. So would be interesting to see where our inquiry is going to lead to. I'm sure it will be a learning experience.

 

[hitterman]

Yes, there is a plugin which can backup your database and files to Dropbox.
Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/

I haven't used this plugin but looking at the ratings I guess it should work.

Regards!

- Create a whole ZIP archive of your public_html.
- Move the archive to domain's root directory so that it can be accessible from www.yourdomain.com/yourbackfile.zip

- Now use this Tool
http://ctrlq.org/save/

- Sign in using Google Account. Select your desired Cloud service, authorize your cloud service, enter your details and then save

I'm sort of confused by this process. Is there a way of semi-automatically preparing the backup .ZIP on a scheduled basis? I was under the impression there were plugins that would do this.