Hopefully so. Seems that I was a bit deficient in keeping one of my WordPress installs up to date, which allowed a spammer to eventually take over and disable (for me, anyway) every WordPress-based site I manage. I’ve taken something of a shortcut (avoiding a complete wipe and rebuild) in restoring things, so I’m still not entirely confident it’s fixed. In any event, if you maintain your own WordPress installs, my advice is that you look well beyond backing up your database, but also to image directories, modified templates, plugins, etc. That way, even if you have a similar problem, you can spend your weekends doing enjoyable things, and not tedious manual restorations.
lyne
whoa, idiot spammers. thanks for the reminder, I’ll check my backups today.
MB
Yeah, not fun at all. New backup strategy in place as soon as I’m half-sure I’m not backing up an irretrievably broken set of sites.
The amusing (in retrospect) part was that while I couldn’t access my sites, I was still getting all of the email notifying me of the trackback spam they were generating with my site. Sort of like a finger in my inbox, ever three minutes.
Vivian J. Paige
Glad you’re back! Now get those backups done ;)
lyne
so what’s your new backup strategy?