Apr 30 2008
Backup Often
A few days ago, I was working with another WordPress installation which is for another project. When I downloaded the config file to update it, I noticed the formatting was screwed up. So I fixed it up so that it looked like it should, uploaded it to the server, and WordPress had a fit. Whatever little changes I did screwed everything up.
I didn’t have a backup of the config file, so I couldn’t just undo the changes. I’m usually pretty good about making backups of some things, but it looks like I’m going to have to backup the WordPress files a little more often.
In the case of that install, I just re-installed everything. I didn’t make any posts, so I didn’t really lose any data. It’s just a pain in the ass to deal with things like this sometimes.