{"id":112,"date":"2012-05-22T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2012\/05\/22\/how-pixar-very-nearly-lost-toy-story\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:01","slug":"how-pixar-very-nearly-lost-toy-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2012\/05\/22\/how-pixar-very-nearly-lost-toy-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pixar very nearly lost Toy Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I had a near-death experience (at least it felt like that to me) when I accidentally wiped out the database for a website I manage.<\/p>\n<p>With one click, I suddenly realized that I had deleted almost every page and post that had been published over the past year. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I have a back-up plan. So imagine my horror when I realized that my automated backup system hadn&#8217;t actually been working properly for the last few weeks!<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, after spending a lot of hours sweating like crazy, I did figure out how to restore the database, and everything is working just fine.<\/p>\n<p>So I can relate to this nicely told tale, about how Pixar very nearly lost all of Toy Story. The parallels with my own experience are pretty close.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you&#8217;re wondering, my new, improved backup regime is working nicely, thanks for asking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EL_g0tyaIeE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I had a near-death experience (at least it felt like that to me) when I accidentally wiped out the database for a website I manage. With one click, I suddenly realized that I had deleted almost every page and post that had been published over the past year. Yikes! Fortunately, I have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-1O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}