[ic] template code deletion

Dan Browning interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Sep 28 00:40:00 2001


> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Laura Donnelly wrote:
> 
> LD>>I made a hex code change in my theme.cfg file ...when I 
> clicked on apply
> LD>>changes in my admin area...I went to check and all of my 
> template code was
> LD>>deleted. My site is gone. I was almost complete and just 
> needed to change
> LD>>some css colors.
> 
> I have a cron event that backs up all of my store stuff to a different
> computer via NFS every night at midnight. It could just as 
> easily go to a
> different place on the same computer. It has saved me more 
> than once when I
> have done something stupid. I can go to last nights back up 
> and retrieve
> what was working yesterday. (Actually, it doesn't copy 
> everything, only that
> stuff that has changed since the last back-up)
> 
> That's not going to help Laura with this disaster I'm sorry 
> to say. But, it
> can provide a safety net for future endeavors.

A backed-up CVS tree is also very convenient for fixing stuff.

Dan Browning <danpb@mail.com>