Site Recovery

As you may have noticed, the site went down last night and it went down hard. A software update managed to error out and leave things in a very inconsistent state. Due to this I've had to rebuild my site from the ground up, but luckily I had a series of backups both in the form of database/file dumps and a test server that had a copy of the important content. This meant that with a little bit of effort I could recover everything I needed. It would have been much easier had I performed a backup immediately before the update, and in future I will be doing that (as you are very strongly advised to do). I've learned my lesson from this, and hopefully you can learn from it too.

You may notice a few differences this time around - the front page has been rearranged, there are no translation options, and the galleries are gone. The latter two will be back eventually, but that may take a while. Translation is likely to wait until Drupal 7 is released and hopefully they provide the capability in a more sensible way. The galleries still don't have a nice solution and I think I'm back to rolling my own.