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Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: One site in network suddenly corrupt/missingUPDATE: my concern was valid because between yesterday and today the problem spread to a second site in the network. The only updates made to sites in the network during that time were some very simple text/image changes to the main site, so now I’m more convinced it wasn’t as a result of a manual action anyone on my team took.
Turns out that on top of the corrupt site issue my automatic database backups were failing. So I contacted my server admin for that issue, and he discovered the wp_options tables for the two corrupt sites had crashed. He ran a repair on those tables via phpMyAdmin to get the backups running again, and the repair also brought my corrupt sites back without any visible data loss.
The process in phpMyAdmin that he verbally described to me was to check the boxes for tables designated as “in use,” then table maintenance > repair table.
I hesitate to call this resolved because he was not able to tell me what caused the partial crash or how to prevent it, just how to run a standard repair if it happens again. Would still love to get that info if anyone has experience with it.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: One site in network suddenly corrupt/missingThanks for your insight! I will look into finding the title/url in the database directly to see if I can get the changes to stick. I am fortunate in that the site is for an event that has passed, and salvaging it versus just cloning a good site would save me negligible work. However, as our business has moved entirely online, losing some of the other sites would be more catastrophic.
I am hoping someone has insight as to the root cause, because I’m worried about inadvertently corrupting another site if I don’t know.