Google has said that the 20-hour outage that its publishing service Blogger had to face last week was because of a data corruption during a scheduled maintenance work.
Millions of users were affected by the outage as they could not access or publish with Blogger for the entire day.
Now Google has apologised for the disruption saying that most of the posts are safe and services restored.
In a note titled "Blogger is back", Blogger Tech Lead/Manager Eddie Kessler said, "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."
The outage began last Wednesday, giving rise to fears that it has become the target of a hack. However, Blogger was back up Friday.
Kessler said, "We’re very sorry that you’ve been unable to publish to Blogger for the past 20.5 hours."
"We use Blogger for our own blogs, so we’ve also felt your pain."
"We’re nearly back to normal — you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored," Kessler said.
Kessler also added that the company is working on ways to prevent such a glitch from happening again.
"We try hard to ensure Blogger is always available for you to share your thoughts and opinions with the world, and we’ll do our best to prevent this from happening again," Kessler said.
