{"id":90,"date":"2006-12-11T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cecsearch.com\/WordPress\/2006\/12\/11\/when-disaster-strikes-what-will-you-do\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T03:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:59:49","slug":"when-disaster-strikes-what-will-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/11\/when-disaster-strikes-what-will-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"When Disaster Strikes &#8211; What Will You Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mistylook2\/img\/disaster_lady.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"87\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\">Not sure how many people noticed, but we had a <strong>catastrophe<\/strong> on Saturday. Our website hosting company, which also hosts our blog, had some problems with their SQL server. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, many websites and even more blogs depend upon SQL for content management. In non-technical terms, SQL is the filing cabinet where all the articles and comments from a blog are stored. Well on Saturday my hosting company had something bad happen and they lost my filing cabinet, <strong>PERMANENTLY<\/strong>. That&#8217;s not good.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I had a backup of the SQL database and after an hour or so, I was able to recover everything without losing a single<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mistylook2\/img\/sql_backup_agent.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"91\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\"> post. One of the things that helped me was a great plug-in designed for WordPress <font size=\"1\"><font color=\"#0000FF\"> [Editor&#8217;s Note: WordPress is the software that powers this blog, the <a title=\"Visit the JibberJobber blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jibberjobber\/blog\">JibberJobber blog<\/a>, <a title=\"Visit the SixDegressfrom Dave blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sixdegreesfromdave.com\/\">SixDegreesfromDave<\/a>, and many others]<\/font><\/font> called, simply enough, <i><a title=\"Click here to go get the database backup plug-in\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skippy.net\/blog\/category\/wordpress\/plugins\/wp-db-backup\/\">WordPress Database Backup<\/a><\/i>. It is available from Skippy.net and I highly recommend it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skippy.net\/blog\/about\/\">Scott Merrill<\/a>, the author of the plug-in has a companion plug-in call <a title=\"Click here to go get the WP-Cron plug-in\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skippy.net\/blog\/category\/wordpress\/plugins\/wp-cron\/\">WP-Cron<\/a>. Used in conjunction with the database backup plug-in, you can get database backups emailed to you on a scheduled basis. Take my word for it, if you have a WordPress powered blog, you ought to have these two plug-ins working for you all the time. <strong>If you don&#8217;t, go get them and install them, right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, because of the problem with the database we were not able to capture answers to our <a title=\"Click here to open a new browser window and take the survey.  It only takes a couple of minutes\" href=\"http:\/\/s-ef73r-2918.sgizmo.com\/\"><strong>Job Board Improvement Survey<\/strong><\/a>.  so if you haven&#8217;t taken the survey yet, please visit the <a title=\"Read my article titled Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just whine about job boards - Do Something!\" href=\"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/WordPress\/2006\/12\/07\/dont-just-whine-about-job-boards-do-something\/\">article about why job boards are so hated<\/a> and find out how to help.  You can also check out what others have to say on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/12\/01\/online-job-hunt-10-years-later-still-sucks\/\">subject<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recruiting.com\/goldbergs_response_to_techcrunch_post_on_building_a_better_job_board\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jobster.blogs.com\/blog_dot_jobster_dot_com\/2006\/12\/the_job_board_o.html\">job<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recruiting.com\/job_boards_suck_and_up_go_the_fees\">boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how many people noticed, but we had a catastrophe on Saturday. Our website hosting company, which also hosts our blog, had some problems with their SQL server. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, many websites and even more blogs depend upon SQL for content management. 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