Comments on: Where’s Everything Gone?

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:28:00 +0000

Sorry Mark, In this situation, as in many others, Google is your friend: site:rittman.net. Look for the cached version. You will also find archive.org very handy.

By: vidya

vidya — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:21:00 +0000

I am so sorry
Well I was hoping to look up some information on the Siebel Analytic Server on your site (I haven’t been able to find a downlowd of it at edeliver) – All edelivery has is the Siebel CRM Application Suite and was wondering if the Analytic Server was part of it. Tried the site a couple of times this morning – and though that I probably had it bookmarked incorrectly.
I am so sorry, I hope you will be able to recover the conent.

By: Sten

Sten — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:59:00 +0000

You might be able to find some of your old articles from here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rittman.net

By: Scott Powell

Scott Powell — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:51:00 +0000

Mark, very sorry to hear this – your website has always been the first place I turn to for information on Oracle BI and DW.
Just as a question – any chance you have the old backups you did before you did the last major overhaul on this site (maybe 3 – 4 months ago it seems like)?
Best wishes,
Scott

By: tobias

tobias — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:50:00 +0000

You can get some (most perhaps) of it back via the waybackmachine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rittman.net/ It looks like you can get back to March 2006. They accept donations (non-profit and tax deductible if applicable): http://www.archive.org/donate/

By: John Scott

John Scott — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:44:00 +0000

Mark,
What a nightmare! However all might not be lost *just* yet, it should be possible to recover quite a few of your pages from the Google cache, for example go to google and type in ‘www.rittman.net’ and choose the ‘cache’ link should give you the last cached version of your home page that Google has, also to get back sub pages you can type in ‘cache:http://www.rittman.net/category/application-server/’ into the Google search field to get back the cached version of a particular URL.
If you’re quick you might just be able to get some of your pages back before Google updates it’s cache.
Hope this helps mate.
John.

By: Bence

Bence — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:44:00 +0000

Mark, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine may help: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://rittman.net

By: Kirill

Kirill — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:05:00 +0000

Oh man,
I’m so sorry. I can’t even imagine how you feel
You are one of my favorite reference for a long time.
But! There should be some backup! MySQL database is plain files with .MYD, .MYI extentions so they might do files backup and that could include mysql.
Oracle has bunch of your articles and probably some guys as well. I’ll send you some of your posts that I saved locally.
I think would be fare enough if your readers help you to restore at least recent posts.