Tonights Site Issues
You may have noticed the site go offline earlier. You may have even seen it appear as a default, and empty, WordPress blog. Or you may have just received an error.
It was my fault.
I was attempting to “shore up” the security on the site. One such change didn’t work and in trying to manually back the changes out, I accidentally, erm, deleted some of the live databases. Oops. And I hadn’t made a backup for weeks (yes, I know).
I had no choice but to restore from that backup. Thanks to the Google’s site cache and the cache in Google Reader I was able to reconstruct all the lost posts. In some cases I haven’t been able to find out the exact times they were posted, due to Google Reader only showing a date on recent entries.
Next up, I’ll be restoring comments and page changes.
And, yes, I’ll be backing up.
Moral to us all… backup. Backup. And backup.
Update
A few hours later and I’ve restored it as best as I can. Some comments have been omitted and, well, user counts and the such will be lost 
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