On Wednesday afternoon I heard that all my work over the past year and a half, was lost. Everything on spacekate.com/ was gone. I wanted to cry. I panicked. I tweeted.
Sympathy and suggestions of the way-back machine came in. My heart leapt slightly as I realised my Google Reader subscription (a back-up suggestion from a friend) contained my text. Phew. I couldn't bear to think of everything I'd worked so hard on being gone completely. Layout, photos, widgets and more importantly, comments, from valued readers and kind souls were all gone. This is especially gutting since one of those from the Head of NASA, Charlie Bolden. I'm going to piece it all back together, as best I can. Please bear with me.
In better news – I've got a place on the International Space University Summer Programme, so it's not all bad news. More on that, well, as soon as I can get this fixed up again.
Please be patient as I try to fix this. I'm very sad that it happened.
4 thoughts on “Disaster Strikes!”
O Noes! Disaster indeed! How did this happen? Who was hosting the site and why can’t they restore from backups? I hope you haven’t lost anything that you didn’t have backed up elsewhere but as you say, even losing the wonderful comments you received is tragic. Deeply sad for you and best wishes for the rebuild.
If you don’t have access to backups then Google cache is your friend, try searching with “site:spacekate.com daterange:2451545-2456035” then use the preview tab on each result to retrieve the cache.
Hello Kate,
Pleased to hear and to see that your site is back up and running.
Carl.
Thanks Carl. I spent hours and hours and hours and hours recreating all the posts. Soul-destroying, but worth it! Still need to fix some of the layout, but at least the majority of the content is back. Time to write some new stuff I guess! 🙂