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Post by Scott Anderson on Sept 18, 2017 18:10:01 GMT -6
I accidentally deleted my blog! I had two websites and I was using my phone and I deleted the wrong one.
It's gone.
My first attempt to retrieve it was to go through my hosting company - google. It's free, and you get what you pay for. Someone who doesn't speak English told me they don't do it.
My second attempt was to go through several chache storing websites lke the WayBack Machine. I was able to get a few posts back and a partial blogroll. But the vast majority of posts got eaten up by the Internet monster.
I don't know what to do next. Can anyone help me please? It's something I'm real proud of and it's heart breaking to see it go.
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Post by grodog on Sept 18, 2017 21:04:05 GMT -6
Do you already have the content backed up offline somewhere?
Is it possible there's a mirror to your site (like blogspot.com.fr or something like that)?
Have you crawled through all of the Internet Archive cached versions of your site (all of the dates/times)?
Have you tried google cache for it?
Have you tried to google your individual posts to see if they've been swiped/cached/pirated/mirrored without your knowledge/permission?
Have you tried to call back to google hosting then requested to speak with a supervisor?
Allan.
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Post by Scott Anderson on Sept 18, 2017 21:49:06 GMT -6
Hi Grodog! Thank you for your suggestions.
The quick answer is that I have tried all the things you suggest except for placing a call to Blogger. I will try that in the morning. While I am pessimistic, it can't hurt!
A board member here has my blog on RSS and he was able to through his trash folder and pull up some 20 posts (and counting).
Archive services have recorded some 20 as well. That's a lot!
I will be able to reconstruct about 90% of my blogroll from the cached pages as well. I think that's the most valuable single thing on the site.
It's the oldest stuff, from 2015 and 2016, that will be missing. Not a lot of post volume but some posts where I lay down some evergreen themes that I like to refer back to.
Maybe what I have is what I can hope for? But I hear all the time nothing on the internet is ever really gone, so it all must be somewhere.
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Post by tetramorph on Sept 19, 2017 5:37:52 GMT -6
Wow, Scott Anderson, what a bummer. So glad grodog could help. So glad you've found a way to recover so much. Good luck! |
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Post by Scott Anderson on Sept 19, 2017 9:43:03 GMT -6
There is another fellow who uses these boards who you probably don't know, who had the last 50 posts archived in his RSS. He went through painstakingly and dug them out and forwardwed them to me.
I don't know whether he want to be named. But I am in his debt.
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Post by grodog on Sept 19, 2017 10:48:14 GMT -6
I'm glad to hear it sounds like you'll be able to recover most of the data, Scott! Which of course reminds me that I don't have my blog backed up  Allan. |
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Post by hamurai on Sept 19, 2017 22:40:55 GMT -6
Glad to hear you were able to recover a big part of your blog!
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