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Jeff Atwood asks for help restoring a site from Internet caches
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- thorax 17y agoYeah, time to double-check your own backup procedures, everyone. You don't want to be posting similar questions, right? Remember the old saying: if you haven't tested restoring your backups, then you don't really have backups. (Not that I've ever been good about this myself.)
- idlewords 17y agoI found about 200 of his pages (with images and other dependencies) in the Pinboard archives, and forwarded them along to the guy. I wonder if there is a nice market niche for a 'panic button' recovery tool that scrapes web caches, internet archive and so on immediately after you lose a site.
- pavs 17y agoSo If I were to make a business out of this, would you sue me for stealing your idea ala TC? :)
- ericb 17y agoWhat are the Pinboard archives?
- idlewords 17y agoPinboard.in crawls and stores people's bookmarks as a paid service. A number of Pinboard users had bookmarked articles from Atwood's site before the data loss, so I had a stored copy of all the page content and dependencies for those articles.
- pan69 17y agoI guess no podcast this weekend.
- pavs 17y agoThis weeks podcast: How to empathize when someone screws up. Edit: from his tweet - "on the podcast this week (unpublished, because I suck) @spolsky and I discussed "worst case scenario" biz outcomes. prophetic!" http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/6582023681 http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/6582023681
- brc 17y agosorry would help but I'm off to do a backup
- xenophanes 17y agoit's easy to retrieve google caches with a ruby script. here's one i used in the past: http://pastie.org/739757 http://pastie.org/739757 edit: if you use this, add a sleep! whoops. i didn't get banned though, shrug.
- pronoiac 17y agoWarrick works better for that, at least: http://warrick.cs.odu.edu/warrick.html http://warrick.cs.odu.edu/warrick.html It sleeps in between queries, so you don't get temporarily banned from Google. I think it's not currently working for Yahoo or MSN/Bing. Fixing that might be easier than doing everything else manually. Edit: I've gotten a response from Frank McCown, creator of Warrick, that he's looking into it. Edit 2: He'll try to update it next week.
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- tectonic 17y agoWarrick looks like exactly what he needs.
- pvg 17y agoHis biggest problem appears to be the images (and possibly other resources included in the pages). It's pretty much a given he'll be able to recover the text itself.
- rayvega 17y agoThe permanent loss of the images makes it a greater tragedy since half the content in any given post of his consists of images.
- pvg 17y agoThere are many, many images in the pinboard archive, a couple of hundred posts' worth. I don't know if he also has other sources from which to retrieve them, he doesn't seem to have grabbed them from pinboard yet. But a good chunk of his stuff will be recovered, images and all.
- wglb 17y agoOld saying is "If it ain't tested, is is broken." Old corollary: "If it is tested, it might still be broken." And: "If it is a backup, it might still be broken." Seems like a good idea to occasionally spend the time and totally fill a sparkley clean image with your backups and see how well it fares. My sympathies.
- niyazpk 17y agoI posted a solution here (http://bit.ly/4AGCju http://bit.ly/4AGCju) (to get back the images), but looks like nobody likes it. May be that was a bad way to approach the problem. Anyway I am looking forward to more news on how they are going to resolve the issue.
- karanbhangui 17y agoI saw this on superuser too (http://superuser.com/questions/82036/recovering-a-lost-website-with-no-backup http://superuser.com/questions/82036/recovering-a-lost-websi...), i'm assuming it was you. fairly clever solution :)
- tectonic 17y agoClever!
- yannis 17y agoBrilliant!
- thras 17y agoThese seem to be up on archive.org through 2008. The rest are available through Google Reader.