You can never be too careful. I learned that the hard way today.

I was trying to move my blog site from one domain to a new sub-domain.

I thought I was smart when I tried to make WP point to the existing db and it seemed to work, so I didn’t back up the db. I only backed up my theme.

Bad move. In fact, in retrospect,  it wasn’t a bad move. That’s exactly what the problem was… I didn’t make a move to back up the db.

While trying to figure out the domain pointer problem, I came across the feature on the hosting ops screen to uninstall the old WP. I didn’t realize that it involves removing the db. By the time I realized it, it was already in the process of dumping the data and deleting the db.

That is why I’m starting over with this blog. Oh well… this really is becoming a fresh start. too fresh.

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