OMG I shot myself in the foot at work today.

[NikPreviousAcct]

I've got a new structure for the company website ready to go and finally got the OK from upper management to roll it out this morning. What happens? I ran upstairs to the server room to archive the current site. I basically copied the entire site's folder to another folder elsewhere on the system (RH9). What I didn't realize is that I was still in the site folder when I was copying files, so when I deleted the entire contents of the folder, the archive went out the window too.

Okay, I thought, I'll just undelete the archive. I checked the file system --CRAP. It's EXT3. I can't undelete.

/me kicks himself

Good thing I have the new site structure saved on my laptop. I copied it to CD and ran it upstairs and now I'm working on rebuilding the content for each page manually.



The good thing is that I should be able to get all but two pages rebuilt with proper content from google's cache. God I love Google. :thumbsup:


Cliff's notes:
1) New site approved! Yay!
2) Deleted the old site AND the old site's archive! DOH!
3) Used backup of new site from laptop
4) Google cache saved my ass!

 

[NFS4]

Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[captains]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[nakedfrog]

LOL, that's funny.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[DnetMHZ]

Sounds like the time I had an outlook .pst file on my desktop and I deleted my user profile from the computer (including the desktop)

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[Hankerton]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[NorthRiver]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the head

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[DaFinn]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

A shot in the foot every now and then is good!

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: NorthRiver

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the head

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: NorthRiver

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the head

**loses all interest in thread now***

what was the site?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

The company website. Like... the entire site that the company uses for business that's hosted on a RH9 webserver upstairs. :laugh:

 

[arcas]

Originally posted by: Nik
Okay, I thought, I'll just undelete the archive. I checked the file system --CRAP. It's EXT3. I can't undelete.

Cliff's notes:
3) Used backup of new site from laptop
4) Google cache saved my ass!

Maybe you can use this incident as ammunition to get your boss(es) to spring for some sort of nightly backup solution?

 

[Viper GTS]

Do you need someone to introduce you to the concept of backups?

Viper GTS

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: neonerd

Originally posted by: NorthRiver

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the head

**loses all interest in thread now***

what was the site?

any any site that could have been recovered from google cache must be also hosted on geocities.......................................

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: NorthRiver

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the head

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[FoBoT]

what kind of gun was it?

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

hahahahaha

Bachman Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business is playing on the shoutcast server I'm listening to. :laugh: That's hilarious

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***

 

[rasholianmon]

post pics!

 

[Ogg]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: NFS4
Damn, I thought you actually shot yourself in the foot

**loses all interest in thread now***