Well. My life is over. I got punchy and accidentally deleted a client’s entire site. Backups and all. Wasn’t paying attention to which specific delete feature I was using and POOF. It’s all gone.

The worst part? I was actually just trying to delete a staging site where I was trying out some stuff to try to win a site redesign contract. Now it looks like I’ll be paying THEM for damages and/or building them a new site for FREE.

I’m so done.

There is a tiny chance the backups aren’t yet “garbage collected” by the host following the delete.

@stackodev best of luck :/

🍀🍀🍀😯

Go back in time

Recuva.. if u are lucky( if os is windows and the drive is unused after the delete)

@superadmin I don’t have physical access like that. It’s a cloud host. Containerized nginx. Lowest hosting package. It’s actually an awesome host that makes a lot of things very easy and convenient. That is when I don’t do stupid things like delete a whole site and its account and I hadn’t kept up the offline backups because I’m stupid like that.

Man am I stupid.

So stupid.

I need to go into janitorial work or something simple that my tiny brain can handle at this point in my career.

@Alice this was WordPress. I think bitbucket would only get the code. the database and uploaded media wouldn’t be saved there. The code, files, and DB for this host are stored in AWS S3 buckets. But there’s a possibility that because the entire account was deleted, the bucket for it was deleted as well. If that’s the case, I’m truly f’d.

Pray for my soul.

Hope you will find it somewhere in your own pc deep inside lurking to b found out @stackodev

You may want to ask your host provider if they have a backup. I once nearly damaged my system completely. After asking them, they were able to recover to an image taken a few hours before.
It's desperate I know, but it might be worth a try

And don't give up. We all do stupid things sometimes. What matters is to stand up and to keep fighting. Giving up is not worth it; pursuing dreams is.

Good luck with recovering!

And I think you've learnt your lessons here... so see ut as a positive reminder for yourself

I once deleted a client node for a company contracting over 100,000 grand on accident. On initial attempted restore caused our event message broker to shit the fan. Took our top software engineers nearly a month to resolve the underlying cause, and we were forced to give them free use for the next year.

Hoping for the best mate, cheers.

May archive.org be with you

Shit. I hope you recover.

@pain yup. Did that. Holiday weekend, so I wait in agony for their verdict.

@Renze archive.org was totally 404 on this site. Of course the only time I’ve ever seen that happen in my life. #FailBig

Using source control keeps this from being the end of the world moment it seems to be. Better yet get a dev ops solution and then you can republish even faster.

@dougheeren source control was in use but at this time I hadn’t had a local copy. Plus it’s WordPress. No DB or media files in source control

GG

Good news! The response back was positive and forgiving. God bless Canadians. A little “sooorry” goes a long way there. No news yet from the still holiday-ing, weekend-ing host on my backups, though. Hopefully the client has the original content squirreled away somewhere.

Glad to hear that.

3-2-1 backups are where this would have saved you.
In the future, because you can recover from this, I would recommend this approach.

YES! The backups were fully recovered! Site restoring now. This was the only time in 22 years I accidentally deleted a site. It will definitely be the last.

@stackodev great to hear that!

@stackodev woohoo amazing support you got there. I use flywheel for my WordPress clients and their support is very good too.

@CurseMeSlowly I’m on Pantheon.io. It’s great. They just need to add another layer of stupid repellent for folks like me who might accidentally delete a site.

@stackodev nice!!! :)