{"id":650,"date":"2002-08-26T23:33:48","date_gmt":"2002-08-27T07:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/26\/rebuilding-from-scratch\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:07:32","slug":"rebuilding-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/08\/26\/rebuilding-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding from scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7289,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.movabletype.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260306004502\\\/https:\\\/\\\/movabletype.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 20:10:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 05:52:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 17:25:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:37:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 10:45:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:49:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:49:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay&#8230;so here&#8217;s the scoop.<\/p>\n<p>In brief &#8212; everything died.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, I grabbed a moment during work to check my site, and found out that it was down. This wasn&#8217;t immediately a concern &#8212; computers do occasionally freeze (though it&#8217;s wonderfully rare with OS X), my router has a tendency to lock up on occasion, and I&#8217;ve got the occasional tendency to forget about some of the more important of my bills &#8212; so I just didn&#8217;t worry about it right off.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when I got home, it quickly became obvious that this was no minor problem. The iMac that I&#8217;ve been using for my webserver, was dead &#8212; &#8220;D &#8211; E &#8211; D, ded&#8221;. No response to any keypresses&#8230;no response to the &#8216;panic button&#8217; reset switch&#8230;not even any response after I unplugged it, let it sit for a minute, and plugged it back in. <em>Not<\/em> a good situation.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when I noticed the faint smell of something burnt lingering in the air.<\/p>\n<p>So, my webserver is no more, and I&#8217;m in the process of rebuilding things from scratch. My first priority was to get my blog back up &#8212; but to do that, I&#8217;m starting with just the default <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\" title=\"MovableType\">Movable Type<\/a> template. The rest will fall into place&#8230;though it&#8217;s likely to be a long, slow process.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, I&#8217;d done a backup of my website just three weeks ago, towards the beginning of August, so I&#8217;ve only really lost about three weeks of posts. On the down side &#8212; just copying that backup into the webserver directory of the machine I&#8217;m using now, didn&#8217;t work, so I still have to rebuild everything. Still, it&#8217;ll go a lot faster than if I&#8217;d entirely lost all that information, so that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime&#8230;well, things are likely to be a bit odd around here for a while as I get things going again. 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