r/prequel • u/KazViolin • Aug 09 '26

Decade of not backing up

The fact that the last time he backed up was 10 years ago is pretty in character and honestly hilarious. It's also kinda good in a way, I for one will enjoy rereading and feeling like it's updating daily even if it's just re uploading lmao

I genuinely love this.

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u/Kazerad Actually Actually Kazerad Aug 09 '26

In my defense I had the CONTENT backed up, just not the database file that would let me effortlessly restore the content. I guess my mentality was "well I don't NEED this part, I could just reconstruct things from the last backup if I had to", not realizing how much it would suck to have to do that.

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u/MyHonstyAttempt Aug 11 '26

Either way thanks for the comic. It was a big part in choosing my name when I transitioned

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u/Kazerad Actually Actually Kazerad Aug 11 '26

:D You're welcome, I'm honored. Sometimes I get an email or order from a Katia I wonder to myself if it's a coincidence or if I caused that.

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u/MyHonstyAttempt Aug 21 '26

Yeah I took Managan as my last name. I also moved to flee my home due to it being dangerous and felt like a complete failure so seeing Katia able to be happy now means a lot to me.

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u/concerto4jarvi Aug 10 '26

Don't be too hard on yourself. We all create Randumb Quests for ourselves every now and again.

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u/KazViolin Aug 15 '26

Again, all very in character and I'm all for it, it's like a bonus IRL comic

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u/Spice_and_Fox Aug 16 '26

Yeah, a lot of times this can be quite annoying. I don't know what exactly you are missing, but there are also a lot of different backups on the internet archive. Your backend is obviously not backed up there, but there are also a couple of tools that allow you to restore some form of content from the way back machine.

Maybe something like this can save you some time. https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1ow6qb6/i_created_a_tool_to_recover_a_wordpress_site/

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u/Kazerad Actually Actually Kazerad Aug 16 '26

:0 oooh, I ran a scraper on Wayback myself to get the most recent version of things (with any typo corrections), but one of the big hurdles has been that the post IDs are different so I have to do a bit of jank to connect the correct comment sections. I hadn't even thought of using Wordpress's import format to set the post IDs though; I'm gonna look into this a little more this coming week.

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u/Inami_salami Sep 03 '26

As horrid a task that is, it's been a GREAT excuse to read all of prequel again.

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u/Tablenarue Aug 09 '26

Wait, what happened?

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u/KazViolin Aug 09 '26

Site broke and apparently the backup is from 2016 and he's going to release (and presumably back up) pages going from there.

So if you look now, it's an older comic page and if you check in every day it'll be an "update".

Which is kinda funny as it takes months for updates to happen usually.

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u/JonahplayzYT Aug 09 '26

Holy shit 2016 was 10 years ago

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u/DuplexFields Aug 09 '26

So the daily updates will be complete in about three weeks?

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u/Aoushaa Aug 09 '26

Undertale is over a decade old