Retrieving a deleted blog

  • Unknown's avatar
    silvermiles · Member ·

    Hello,

    I’m writing because I recently discovered through the Wayback Machine of the internet archive a snapshot of a blog I used to have back in 2010 and lasted until 2013 or so. Back then, I deleted the blog to start another one, and then another one, and so forth. Now, I thought those texts that I had written were lost forever, but imagine my surprise when I discovered a snapshot of the blog made in 2019 via the web crawler of the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/collections/20190801000000*/http://silvermiles.wordpress.com/).

    I have been able to get back the five or so texts that were on the snapshot but not the rest, which were actually some of the most beautiful writings I wrote during my college years. Is there a possibility that I can retrieve the rest? If so, what should I do? I thought I had lost them forever and it is an amazing miracle that I can get them back.

    Thank you so much for your understanding and assistance.

    Best,

    David

  • Unknown's avatar
    staartmees · Member ·

    That site https://silvermiles.wordpress.com/ has been deleted and can only be restored within 30 days after deletion. As you say you deleted that blog in 2019, there is no way to restore that site or retrieve its content.

  • Unknown's avatar
    silvermiles · Member ·

    Hi staartmees!

    I apologize if I did not explain myself correctly, I deleted the blog around 2016 to start another one, so it was deleted when the Wayback Machine did the snap of the URL in 2019, so my understanding is that there could be a way to retrieve it?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi David,

    There is no way for us to restore a site that was deleted in 2016 – we can only undelete sites for 30 days after they’re deleted.

    I don’t know how Wayback Machine has a snapshot of your site from 2019, but the site was definitely not online with us at that point so they could have scraped it. Most likely the snapshot showing at that date is a glitch on their end.

    If the Wayback Machine doesn’t contain all your content from the deleted site, I’m afraid there’s no way to recover the rest any more.

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