1064th Friday Blog Roundup

Once a week, I diligently run down all of the tasks on my backup list, which includes backing up this space. I back it up four different ways, not truly understanding which type of backup I would want to use if I had to restore the site. Better safe than sorry.

So I was making my weekly backup in the cPanel file manager, when instead of clicking on the folder, I somehow MADE THE FOLDER DISAPPEAR. Like it was gone. And there is no undo button in the cPanel.

This story clearly has a happy ending because you are reading it on my blog, but I felt completely sick in that moment. I had no clue what I did. All I knew was that the file was not in the trash, and if you looked for my website on the internet, it showed a fatal error message because THE WEBSITE WAS GONE.

I started opening up nearby folders and finally found the folder inside another folder. Then I had to figure out how to move it back to the correct place. And then check that everything worked again. The whole thing unfolded in only a few minutes, but I felt sick for hours afterward because it was such a stupid mistake.

Note to self: Be extra careful when working in the cPanel.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

And now the blogs…

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But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

Not a Wasted Word has a post about the stories we tell ourselves. In this case, it’s using coincidences to confirm that something is meant to be. She gives examples of small things and big things, but I related a lot to the post because we all try to make sense of a (possibly) chaotic world. But this is the part I found so interesting: “Anyway, I am definitely telling myself the story that, THIS WAS MEANT TO BE! Which makes me a little worried that I’m not considering all the issues. Can I be clear minded about something when I’m telling myself this story?” Yes? I think?

Lastly, The Barreness dumps out her brain and catches us up: From a trip that went well to car troubles to a scary moment with her FIL. She writes about the aftermath: “We went to a restaurant in town to stare at each other, ask each other over and over “you okay”; my hip/thigh pulsing in pain and try to process the evening that just unfolded under a beautiful full moon in front of the gallery on the biggest night of the year … Totally normal, totally surreal, absolutely baseline for this year.” I especially love the captured moment of kindness at the end.

The roundup to the Roundup: A blog backup horror story. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between December 5 – 12) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week. Read the original open thread post here.