My Blog was deleted, but I restored it.

You might be wondering what happen to me, why I am not posting from a quite few days. Ya that’s strange isn’t it. But before publishing any posts I wanted to share what happened with my blog. Really it was very scary.

Well I was doing some modification on my web hosting account on 24th April around 8 pm. While doing work on cpanel, I mistakenly hit the delete (remove) button of this blog. Oh my god, what the hell I did, my blog was gone, it was deleted. what I am going to do now. All my lovely posts and comments were gone. Dude I am screwed. My heart was beating fast; I was really scared what to do now. Then I thought of restoring my blog but how, is it possible to restore the deleted blog? Well that was tough question, I was asking myself.

Before going through the restoring process, I thought of my regular visitors, what will happen if they visit my blog and the blog doesn’t exist. Surely if they found out, they’ll never come back again. This was haunting me a lot. So idea caught me and I created a new blog within second in the same domain name through fantastico from cpanel and put the blog in the maintenance mode so that my dear regular visitors might think that I am going through some internal work on my blog but the truth was, you guys know that the blog was empty without any posts because the earlier blog was deleted, I did this just to save myself and reputation But Why am I revealing this, am I nerd, why am I making laugh of myself. No I am not, I am sharing this because it might also happen with you. This mistake can happen with anyone, If you experience this, then the steps taken by me might help you out, if you don’t know what path to follow because this mistake was not intentional, it was by chance.

Before going further, It’s better to tell you that this blog is powered by wordpress and hosted in ewebguru. So basically the wordpress users will be of more benefit.

Now let’s come to my blog saver process. Well that night itself on 24th April, I contacted one of the employer of my web hosting company through yahoo messenger and told him the whole story and he reassured me that the deleted blog can be restore. Wow I was happy. He told me to download the daily backup file through cpanel in my web hosting account and restored it, after that he went offline. I downloaded the daily backup file and tried to restore it but couldn’t follow the correct steps so it was hopeless to try without any help, I started googling, got many information through forums that blog deleted can be restored only through web hosting. Is it true, I really don’t know the answer yet.

I was having sleepless night. I couldn’t contact them on 25th April due to some work. So next day on 26th April, I contacted and he told me to upload the daily backup file through ftp account, I did that and he tried to restore it but hell it didn’t work, there was lot of error, now he guided me to upload the weekly backup, I did that also but that also didn’t work because weekly backup are taken on every Saturday morning since 26th was Saturday. it overwrite the existing files. So guys there was only one option left and that was the monthly backup. Monthly backup are normally taken on April 2 (it might change from web hosting company to company), so there was possibility and we did that and it work, the blog was restored to April 2 but what was the use of it because my blog was started on April 1 so no benefit of monthly backup.

My web hosting company tried every possible help but it didn’t work out. Still I was very disturbed because I couldn’t restore the current blog with all the posts. For a moment I tried to freshen myself, have a coke and went to friends room and enjoyed the day. In the evening I ask myself is there any more possibility, might be can’t say properly. I was having daily wordpress backup file, those who use wordpres they may know that wordpress have the backup facility. But I thought this might not help me because the size of the file was only143Kb

I thought of giving a try and you know what it really work for me. Here are the steps taken to restore my deleted blog.

1. I created a new wordpress blog in the same domain name and installed the same template which I was using when the blog was deleted. OK blog was created now. So how to bring my posts and comments back.
2. What I did is I opened the phpMyAdmin from cpanel.
3. There I selected the wordpress database and choose the Import tab.
4. Through Import tab, I uploaded the wordpress backup file of 23th april.
5. Bravo, I restored all my posts and comments of the blog.
6. But after restoring still there was a problem, all the posts and comments link was not working.
7. So again I took the help of my web hosting, they told me to change the property of .htaccess file to 777 and it work.
8. At last my blog was restored. Really it was horrible experience but I did learned a lot of new techniques through these whole struggle to restore the deleted blog.

I though that all of my subscribed readers number might decrease a lot but to my surprise it drop only by 25%. I thanks all the readers who still stick with my blog and all new visitors are always welcome to my blog.

Have a nice day!!!

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