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BlogCatalog Data Loss

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Unfortunately we recenly suffered some data loss on our server. We had to roll back most of the data to our June 25th backup. We were able to rescue the blog data and user information as well as some discussions up to July 6th 4PM CST.

If you created your account or submitted a blog after July 6th, you may need to repeat the process.

We are really sorry for the inconvenience and hassles this has caused you. We are working on a new server and should have it running by week end. This should prevent similar problems from occurring in the future.

In the mean time, we hope this hasn’t cause you too many problems. Please post any issues you are having on here or email them to webmaster@blogcatalog.com.

If you’d like to know more please check out the discussion at: http://www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/blogcatalog-data-loss

Thanks for all your support and patience!

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6 Responses to “BlogCatalog Data Loss”

  1. Quaternity of Blogging » Derek Semmler dot com Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    [...] there were some technical difficulties and BlogCatalog lost some data and had to revert to their backup from June 25th. This meant that I lost all of the friends that I [...]

  2. Weekly Update 12th July | Dipping into the Blogpond Says:
    July 12th, 2007 at 7:51 am

    [...] recategorised my blog, joined a few Aussie neighbourdoods, left some reviews etc - they went and lost data, and had to restore a backup from nearly a couple of weeks prior. I really don’t want to be [...]

  3. ben (Check me out!) Says:
    July 12th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

    would this have anything to do with why I cant sign out of my account?

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  4. Avinash (Check me out!) Says:
    July 13th, 2007 at 10:46 am

    Man, I spent two days in writing a MyBlogLog vs Blog Catalog article to post on my blog and now what is this? I logged into my Blog Catalog account after a 4 or 5 days and everything is gone. I started being active on Blog Catalog since 26th June, 2007, spent hours picking cool blogs, adding friends, etc. Had 27+ blog community members who joined my community after 26th June, I added a few friends and now EVERYTHING is gone. :(

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  5. Ross (Check me out!) Says:
    July 16th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    I am in the same boat… sorry just doesnt cut it.

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  6. narendra.s.v (Check me out!) Says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 5:03 am

    i have already sent my 33 ideas to Blogcatalog Team :D

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