• Retrieving Lost Website or Blog Database

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  Jan 4

  Successful websites takes a lot of hard work, patience and time to reach that mark. If you lose your database, just think what a catastrophe it will be? Your months or years of work is gone. What a frustration it will be to start from the scratch. So safe keeping of your database is very important. It is important to backup the database and need to have multiple copies at different places. However, if you do not have multiple copies or any backup and you lost your database then what? Will it be possible to retrieve those data? What a million dollar question, is not it!

  The answer is yes, to an extent. However, you may not be able to retrieve all of your web pages. I will tell you how. Have you heard of Cache memory in a computer? Cache memory is random access memory (RAM) that a computer microprocessor can access more quickly than it can access regular RAM. As the microprocessor processes data, it looks first in the cache memory and if it finds the data there (from a previous reading of data), it does not have to do the more time-consuming reading of data from larger memory.

  The same way search engines like Google also cache the search results like various pages of websites or blogs. So that they can provide faster search result when people are searching. When you search on Google you should see a “Cached and Similar pages” link just besides website link on the right hand side. So if you have lost any webpage, search for that particular page and if you find that link, click on the “Cached” link and it will give that page. Now you can go to source of the page through your browser and copy the source code. Then you can upload the page again on your web server. For blogs you can create the new post with the same details and it will be back dated post. However, Google has time limit of 1 day to 3 months. However, you can try one cache engine called “Gigablast.com” which gives result in terms of your time preference.

  I can tell you it works to a large extent, as I have tried it myself. However, you should try this soon after you database is lost.

  

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