by kirupa | 30 August 2012
I've been goofing around on this site since 1999. Over those years, I've made every mistake imaginable. The mistakes that I often regretted the most involved losing valuable data. The data I've lost amounted to many hours of work that I had to painstakingly recreate. In some cases, the data I lost was unrecoverable - such as when hundreds of thousands of posts from the forums were deleted when some hackers thought it would be funny. I still can't forgive myself for having carelessly let so many members' contributions on the forums just disappear like that.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.kirupa.com/html5/backup_your_site_data_efficiently_like_a_ninja.htm
