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I’d drafted 2 blogs yesterday – one about a portable monitor and another about Firesticks. This morning I decided to be brave and update WordPress to 5.5<\/a> (I’d tested two other sites yesterday which both worked perfectly) but it failed and I’ve lost (the) blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

To be fair, it’s my own fault for (a) not taking snapshots before running the update (I’d assumed the overnight ones worked) and (b) not checking the said snapshots before I decided to roll back. Especially as I woke to a non-running FreeNAS server this morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had some pretty big electrical storms during the night, and I’m not sure if that caused things to power down, but my office was eerily quiet when I went in this morning as everything connected to the UPS was off. It all started back OK, although I needed to delete some iThemes config from the WordPress jail nginx.conf file as the NGINX service didn’t restart. Having fixed that, and checked everything was running fine, I thought I’d upgrade to 5.5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following error stopped the update and meant that I couldn’t get back into my WordPress site from the browser:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could not create directory.: wp-admin\/css\/colors\/modern<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
A short Google search suggested it was a permissions issue, but I’d jumped the gun and tried to roll back the previous nights snapshots.  I have the database stored in a dataset outside the jail for backup and performance reasons, and while the jail snapshot had completed, the database snapshot was scheduled to run at 05:00 and my machine went down around 03:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A real ‘school-boy error’ as after I’d rolled back the database a day further than I really wanted too, I fixed the error straight away by resetting the permissions on the wp-admin folder.  I needn’t have rolled back the database at all, or probably the jail, but you live and learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having snapshots are great and have saved my ass so many times, but sometimes it’s too easy to simply roll them back without spending a little more time trying to diagnose the problem.  This is one such case which resulted in the lost blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll try and remember what I’d written at some point over the next few days as I thought they were quite interesting, but I start a new job next week so time will be somewhat precious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, the moral of the story?  Check you have a snapshot before running an upgrade, or even better make a new one at the point just before you do.  It takes seconds, and can save hours or days of work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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