Google says that the outage happened while doing a regular maintenance work on the website (looks like someone spilled the coffee on servers). They say some corrupted data (during maintenance work) impacted the Blogger behavior that resulted in deleting posts, comments and user data. Google managed to restore the pre-maintenance state of the blogger in read-only mode and has now recovered the system completely, with few exceptions.
Here’s the Google Official Response with timestamp:
(5/13 7:46PM PST): “Nearly all posts since Wednesday are restored, now bringing back comments from last couple days. We expect the comments to be back this weekend or sooner.”
(5/14 5:37 PM PST): “We're making progress restoring comments, some blogs with a lot of content are taking a little more time. Thanks for bearing with us.”
(5/15 10:55PM PST): “Blogger should be back to normal for the vast majority of people affected by this issue -- if posts are still missing, please check your drafts (you may need to republish). We are in the process of restoring comments made during the affected period from 7:37am PDT on 5/11 to 1:30pm PDT on 5/12.”
Blogger is now restored to a normal working state with the exception of negligible amount of posts and comments that were published during the time between the backup-image was taken on Wednesday and the outage of the website. Blogger team has created a temporary online form for those users who are still experiencing problems with their accounts or blog data. Google has also promised to share a detailed incident report later this week explaining what actually happened.
Source: Blogger
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Commented by: Wijdan Rohail, 16 September, 2011
Welcome back dear :)