I’ve got good news and bad news, G4 Rewinders:
FUUU- okay, give me the Bad News…
- I cannot find my WordPress backups of the site. They most likely got deleted by accident. Dumb mistake. This means I don’t have any of the old news posts, show bios, host bios, comments, everything from the forums or anything of that sort anymore. Basically the backbone of the site got deleted. The only thing I could find was a database for the forums from 2007. I may or may not bother restoring that.
God-D*mnit! Well, what’s the Good News?
- I did not lose (as far as I can tell) any of the G4/TechTV video library I have saved up. Most of this is/has-been backed up on an external hard drive for ages, I also have a ton more backed up on DVD.
- Archive.org seems to have bits and pieces of the site saved, include a lot of the show pages from 2009 and older. This means I won’t have to entirely rewrite all the show pages, but it will be about the slowest method of restoring since I will have to copy and paste (and then update, as most of them are old) each article onto the new site and reformat it so it looks nice.
*%@#&, KnuxSonic, How Did This Happen?
- It’s entirely my fault, actually. I didn’t have the cash to pay the hosting bill for a few months so I let it lapse. I didn’t realize it, but Dreamhost deletes all your files after 2-3 weeks. When I paid up, I went to check my files and, yep, all gone. Databases too and all the online backups as well. Lesson learned: Download WordPress/Database backups every month.
So Now What?
- I’m going to start getting the site operational. I’ll start with the current shows (what, all… two of them?) and get all their info up, every video I have for them up, then move on to past shows in alphabetical order. I’m also looking at getting the live stream back up and running, as that won’t be hard to restore quickly. This layout is just temporary, something I threw on there, I’ll worry about making it pretty later.
TL:DR version: A lot of stuff got deleted, most of it can be brought back, but it will take awhile. In the meantime, G4 Rewind’s Facebook page is a good place to hang out with other G4/TechTV nostalgic nuts. I post videos on there every few days too.
-KnuxSonic