Lost Your Site with No Back Up?

[Sheryl Loch]

Have you ever lost your site and not had a back up made?

If you haven’t then that is great!
But, if it does ever happen there may be a way to get some of your pages back. Yes, it is a slow process and a royal pain in the butt.

Public Service Message - BackUp Your Site!!

I was on a WAHM site the other day and a lady was freakin out (people do that when all their hard work is gone) because she had lost everything. She had the URL listed and I thought I would see if I could find her backlinks that may have her post. Well, that didn’t work so, I tried to use Google – I was able to find her many of her post but, she did not think it was all of them.

I went to Google and typed in site:herurl.com - a whole list of pages came up, just clicking on the link like normal did not get me anywhere BUT, clicking the CACHE did. Yes, she will have to go to each title and click the cache text and copy the articles out but, at least she will have some of her post without rewriting.

I am not sure how long Google will hold those pages once they actually disappear from your site. Once you have tried everything and know your site is truly gone – you might want to try this method.

I know there are likely other ways that may be easier but, I sure as heck could not figure any out.
Oh, make a back up! That would have been the best way. LOL!

If you have any other ideas let me know, just incase it ever happens to anyone else I’ll have ides to pass along.

I personally keep a folder with every post I have written for my blog in My Documents.
Sheryl

[Sheryl Loch]

Well, I learned something tonight!

If you have a theme that have the 'read more', 'post continued'....This idea of getting the cached post leaves you nowhere. All the cached post will bring up is the beginning or lead in. You can not click to continue the reading - it is not part of being cached.

I am guessing that means that when you use this type of post that Google only caches the part that is shown on the front page.

This makes me wonder if Google is only showing the small exert as cached - is Goog actually seeing the complete article for indexing or just the lead in?

Hmmmm?

Sheryl

[Brian Hawkins]

Backing up our sites and databases are very important but I did use the Wayback machine when I decided to start up my spamming site again. My backups were on an old machine that had since died and I wanted the same simple design. I was even able to save the header image I used two years earlier.