Hello,
I have been working on an e-commerce website every day for about 2 months and generated backup files during that time.
One day, I was working on the Stripe payment feature, especially the credit card payment one, and everything was working perfectly. Then, I went on to work on other things such as security. So, I turn it off.
When the website was ready to be launched, I wanted to turn the Stripe payment feature back on, but I was surprised to see that it was not working. I did not touch it since the day I worked on it and it was working, so something I have worked on then must have interacted with it.
So I decided to search for the last version of the website that did not have that issue, by applying the principle of the binary search algorithm. Each time I checked Stripe for each version I loaded, I marked the local .wpress file with a green tag if it was working and a red tag if it was not.
That way, I actually found the last good backup file and the first bad one.
Then, I checked all the backups since the day of creation of that backup file to be sure to have the real last one that worked… and it was indeed the actual last one that was worked.
I wanted to compare the files I suspected to trigger the issue between the last good version and the last version (also faulty). So I loaded the last good one again to get the files back, checked Stripe again just to be sure… it was not working at all. Therefore, I checked all the backup files I tagged in green during the searching process (they were all supposed to work): Every single backup file had that Stripe issue even though everything was fine when I had loaded them previously. How is it possible ?
Thank you for your help 🙂