Doh! Error between keyboard and chair
Yesterday I was working on one of my websites. http://camputerslynx.info, which is about an old British 8bit home micro from the 80s, The Camputers Lynx, and decided that because most of the content is made up of pdf's and zip files that rather than continue to use handcrafted html (it's also been a wiki and a CMS) i'd try a document manager, OpenDocMan was the choice. Everything was going fine with the install until I answered the question "is this a new installation" I answered yes and clicked ok. I have a single database with multiple tables with table prefixes, which has worked quite well in the past. This time it didn't because because rather than just creating a new series of tables with the odm_ prefix, OpenDocMan decided that it would delete the existing database and create a new one. DOH!!!!
Now some of you will ask "well didn't you have a backup", yes i did unfortunatly it was 2 months old (I had been planning on making a new one this week) and it was corrupted 
So i'm having to restart this blog from scratch. A few good things did come out of this c***up though.
1. I will make my backups more regularly.
2. I now have a pristine database for wordpress and my hoster let me have another database so I now no longer have to use a single database for all my sites.
3. I discovered a great piece of software called Warrick that has enabled me to get all the text back from the destroyed blog, although I have lost a few things I got probably 90% back. I'll write up a post about Warrick in a few days.
