I was doing some work on the Limey Dragon Games & Hobbies site today and I killed it. At least for about 20 minutes. It was bad.

I was trying to fix a problem with the forum software on the site (from Plesk and tried to upgrade the forums. It failed, so I did a restore from the backup.

The problem is that Plesk's backup utility will ignore anything that isn't inside of the public html directory. That isn't a problem for most sites, but this one uses Geeklog. Geeklog puts a lot of it's core files, including configuration and plug-ins somewhere else. Plesk not only failed to back up those files, but it also deleted them when it did the restore.

Twenty minutes later, the site is back up and running, but I'm sure I've missed some configuration settings I tweaked the first time. We'll just have to locate them over time.

D'oh!