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June 01, 2005
MovableType, Rebooted!
Well my worst fear has been confirmed. Kymberlie from SixApart support has said that those error messages that I've been seeing are most likely a sign of database corruption. However it couldn't have been that bad because now I can see my entries, although I saw some weird things happening in my MT install. I think I know what's happening here, for some reason my hosting provider is running out a disk space where my MT DB is located, I saw a couple of warning messages saying that the group quota has been exceeded. According to the manual, running out of disk space could result in DB corruption. Anyway it sucks, because I'm no way near my disk space limit on my hosting provider, it's just they're running out of disk space. I've already complained about this to Hostway.
Anyway I was thinking to leave it just as it is, but now I couldn't generate the feeds because there's problem with the ID, so I thought the better of it and decided to reboot my MT installation. Fortunately the database corruption wasn't that bad so I could export all my entries into a text file. The templates are still good too, so I just copy and paste everything to my local file. This time I'm going to use the link to file trick, just in case some disaster happen in the future it'll save me from copy and pasting the file.
So I downloaded the latest MovableType, version 3.16 now, and reinstalled everything from scratch. Fortunately installing MovableType is very easy, also this is my third attempt, so yeah pretty smooth. Importing to MovableType is also a breeze, you only need to create an import directory under the MT installation root, and drop the exported file there. From the MT admin screen select Import/Export and click Import and it's done.
All in all it took me about 2 hours to rebuild my 2 weblogs from scratch.
PS: Backup is very important! Read here for tips and tricks that could save your arse.
Posted by vhadiant at June 1, 2005 09:11 PM
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