EMERGENCY! Can I recover a cached page, after refreshing to the current version?

[Taustin Powers]

I just accidently deleted all the guest book entries on my band's website. They were all saved in a filed called log.dat online, which has now been overwritten. Just a minute ago, when I accessed the file directly in my browser, I still saw all the entries. Like an idiot ("are they really gone then?"), I hit refresh, and now it's gone....(no backups. i know, i know...)Could there be a way to recover the previously cached version of the page?Broswer is Safari, most recent version of OSX.

[aspnetguy]

was this guest book indexed by Google? You could probably get it from Google's index cache.

[justsomeguy]

Yeah, you won't be able to recover the file from your local machine. If Google doesn't have the page cached, then try the internet archive:http://www.archive.org/index.phpEnter the URL of the page into the top one, the Wayback Machine.Check it out, the home page of w3schools from June 21, 2000:http://web.archive.org/web/20000621074328/....w3schools.com/

[Taustin Powers]

Thanks guys! I actually managed to recover 95% of the entries through Google.That archive page is cool though!

[aspnetguy]

good to hear but this time make a backup

[Skemcin]

does your host not provide nightly backups?wouldn't that suffice?