In my recent post, I mentioned I had earlier posts elsewhere, which I was going to move here. But with so many posts (including lots of photos), and being on an uber-slow Internet connection, I decided not to use WordPress’ in-built importer … but rather make the switch via database.

So I went ahead to make a backup of my WordPress database. And having once been bitten, I did not want to take any chances at all this time. So I kept a copy of the database on my USB stick, a copy on my local machine, another copy on the webserver, and yet another copy in my Gmail account.

With these backups-of-backups, I reckoned I was safe enough, and went ahead to clean-up GeorgeAppiah.com, preparing the way for it’s pending assignment.

And today when I finally made time to upload my database to this new blog … grrrrrrrrrrrr. None of the 4 copies of the database I had on different media would work. Try, try, try … nada, nada, nada.

So the lesson here? Yes … make regular backups: databases, files, whatever. And yes, backup your backups too. But most importantly, test your backups before storing them.