Comments on: MySQL Disaster Recovery

By: Chrispian

Chrispian — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:58:19 +0000

Tomas, if I understand what you’re saying, someone used a mysql injection attack on one of your sites and managed to delete the data from 3 fields of one of your tables? If that’s correct, the only way to get that data back is by using a backup. Using an injection attack to delete data is basically the same thing as you going into phpmyadmin and deleting data. Once it’s deleted, it’s deleted. Everything I’ve ready on recovering lost, deleted or corrupted mysql data says either use a last known good backup or try a hard drive recovery program or company.

Sorry the news wasn’t better!

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:41:14 +0000

Do you know how to fix a MySQL Injection what erases 3 fields of a table ? I had a really old backup … And I dont know what to do now! What do you think ?

By: Chrispian

Chrispian — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:35:44 +0000

I remember when I was switching this site to WP many moons ago that I backed up my database and went to delete it so I could start from scratch and ended up deleting the wrong db - it was for another blog I did. Luckily it was brand new at the time so I didn’t lose much.

By: ses5909

ses5909 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:35:21 +0000

I’ve forgotten that silly little “where” clause before. Luckily it was in a test Db but the curse words were still pouring out.

By: Chrispian

Chrispian — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:14:27 +0000

Yeah, USB just feels buggy, still! I have a few USB devices and that’s the only time I ever have any trouble with my Mac or PC.

By: keith

keith — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:59:26 +0000

I’m guilty of using the browser, but my post ussually aren’t that long……or frequent;)

I was backing up photos to a USB hard drive and it locked up. 16 GB of pics. erg. Murphy in full effect, indeed!

By: Chrispian

Chrispian — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:42:40 +0000

That’s another good tip for anyone publishing on the web. Don’t write your drafts in a browser! I’ve lost so many posts to forums, blogs, comments, etc. when my browser crashed mid-draft. I used to run Lit.Org and I’d get reports of people losing their poetry, stories, etc. because they were writing it into the submit box. I write most of my blog posts on my laptop in a text editor as well because I’m usually working on 2-3 at a time as the ideas hit me and it’s a great way to keep backups and keep from losing them typing them live online.

By: Ben Partch

Ben Partch — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:38:32 +0000

Yes backups are a great thing. They seem to be unimportant until you need one. Then there is nothing more important.

A few months back I decided to kill my old blog and start over. (it was doing weird things) The second after I killed the db, I thought “Oh yeah, I had some saved drafts of articles in there, *@%&@*”.

The good news is I had recently made a backup. :) Now I write all posts in a text file first then save them to hard drive, then when they are ready, I copy/paste the code into WP and publish.