The golden site of the internet is back online after being down for about 2 weeks. It seems that the NAS box suddenly slowed down and after trying to do something about it tried restarting it which at that point caused it to not start at all. I still don’t know how this happen as that is what a NAS box is to protect for by running RAID arrays and stuff. To make a long story short I had 2 or three scattered backup locations for the data but none of the quick ones to get to had the WordPress database so I could recover Yusmith. I had another full back up at Amazon using their Glacier program (about $.60 per month for a couple hundred gig of data.) Now I know why it’s called Glacier. Its been downloading and resorting for about a week and a half now and still is only 70% done. But luckily it had restored the required WordPress files first and I found that there was still no database. This led me to discover that I didn’t know how to back up WordPress so I’ve got to recreate the whole thing. That can be done, I have everything but the text (pictures and most other things) It all needs to be loaded in the appropriate databases. The text I can get get from the Wayback Machine and cut and paste it over. I just have to do it one post at a time. I started this chore today as you can see below with the first 3 posts from 2012. Consider this to be like one of those TV shows where the main people sit around and talk to each other and say “remember when we…” and then they fade to a part of an old show and they make an entire show out of doing this. You can relive the last 5 years of YuSmith while I do this. I probably wont get this done before I leave for China and I suspect the Ol’ Chairman Mao blocks the Wayback Machine. If he doesn’t I can work on it there also. To give you a glimpse of possible future posts here are some happenings in the wildlife department of YuSmith
I spent the winter trying to figure out what animal was trying to live in our crawl space. The vents kept getting knocked out. So I put on my wild kingdom hat and investigated. The first sighting was on the back porch (along with what is apparently a neighborhood cat)
I then found it around front.
There is a local racoon that lives down by the back creek.
Of course all the deer that just seem to keep growing in number.
The hawks that fly around rarely land but this one did.
This spring there were quite a few wild turkeys grazing the front and back yards.
On beast that I’ve been tracking since last fall goes by the name Wylie. This picture from mid afternoon in the fall.
Again from the middle of the night this winter, although it does resemble one of those Bigfoot pictures.
About 3 Sundays ago we got these 2 pictures.
There is no doubt there are coyotes around here , our neighbors say they hear them at night howling and the suburb west of us claims to have a problem with them I just hope i don’t see a pack or have someone come to the door selling one of those velvet paintings of wolves baying at the moon that you used to see on vans.
Finally the scariest creatures of all caught crossing the back yard.
So there you have it the new beginning for YuSmith. I have one hard drive that is giving me a warning but I can’t replace it for another 3 or 4 days so if I get that far with no problem I should be able to say everything is fully operational. All that will be needed is to redo the posts so watch history unfold again in the coming weeks.