RAID is not a backup---- hahahah

oh come on here...nobody ever accidently overwrites files or deletes the wrong thing.
 
im going to go home and cry about all the precious, so very precious emo blogs that were lost.

HAHAHAHAHA
 
I really find it hard that not a single copy was kept. wowsers.
 
That website has been up for 6 years...damn..

you can now buy it on ebay... hahhaha
 
This is definitely on a 'malicious or just plain ignorance' level. Yet it's painfully hard to imagine such a level of ignorance that the data wasn't even synced daily or so with another server on the network... It makes the sysadmin inside me cry :(
 
Elledan said:
This is definitely on a 'malicious or just plain ignorance' level. Yet it's painfully hard to imagine such a level of ignorance that the data wasn't even synced daily or so with another server on the network... It makes the sysadmin inside me cry :(
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Even monthly or ever! :eek:
 
Even if they had, it would have been done by "the IT guy" and he could just as easily wipe those as well.
 
The admin was probably testing his backup plan.







The one for when he gets canned, not backing up his data :p
 
Ockie said:
Even monthly or ever! :eek:
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Quite... for my own company the backup strategy is mirroring across 3 (soon 4-5) systems at one site, with incremental daily and full weekly backups (offline on HDDs). At the second site (both syncing their data for off-site backups), a similar procedure is in place. Worst case 1-2 days of data will be lost (if a freak accident wipes out one site completely).

I think I'm pretty safe :)
 
Shit, one of my favorite authors had his blog on journalspace.

Oh well. Gotta relearn this lesson again and again and again and again...
 
Oh wow, that is just crazy. I'm sure it is safe to assume they won't be making that mistake again.
 
Well, I lost my RAID 5 on my Areca 1280ML last night, 3 drives failures in a row..... Good thing I had almost all of the data backed up, still a PITA, but at least I did not loose 8tb of tv recordings...!!
 
Wow that sucks for them. My boss always told me that RAID is not a backup. It just keeps your computer up if a drive fails or makes your computer faster or both. Raid is a fallback, not a backup solution.
 
SkittlesMcduck said:
Wow that sucks for them. My boss always told me that RAID is not a backup. It just keeps your computer up if a drive fails or makes your computer faster or both. Raid is a fallback, not a backup solution.
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Yup, RAID is convenient if one HDD dies (if more die, you're probably stills screwed...). Essentially it is a way to ensure a higher uptime. Lost data generally doesn't come from hardware failure, but from a driver or application (or virus...) which suddenly thinks it's a good idea to wipe/corrupt some files, or from a malicious/ignorant/stupid user/hacker.

Oh, and never forget to get a good UPS and PSU. Spending money on the right hardware there could save more data and hardware than any RAID configuration could :)
 
OMFG, was journalspace hosted by an actual company or run by some kid that didn't know better our of his parent's basement?!
 
they are incompetent, pure and simple. With things like databases you really should be making up a backup everyday. Just incase something that has nothing to do with hardware failure (corruption) or someone making changes to it manually does a typo. There is really no excuse for this. All my friends I give free hosting to on my raid5 server I always backup the database everyday. I also backup the database on my mythbox everyday as well. Even if they didn't have a really true off-site backup solution they should have atleast been making backups of the DB on the same machine as that looks like that would have prevented what happened.
 
Elledan said:
Yup, RAID is convenient if one HDD dies (if more die, you're probably stills screwed...). Essentially it is a way to ensure a higher uptime. Lost data generally doesn't come from hardware failure, but from a driver or application (or virus...) which suddenly thinks it's a good idea to wipe/corrupt some files, or from a malicious/ignorant/stupid user/hacker.

Oh, and never forget to get a good UPS and PSU. Spending money on the right hardware there could save more data and hardware than any RAID configuration could :)
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I guess this just depends on the person. The very little amount of data loss I have suffered have actually all been from hardware failures (hard-drives going bad). In all cases I have been able to retreive the data off the drive before the hard-drive completely dies but in some cases I got I/O errors copying certain files due to the drive being at the end of its life.

I still backup my super important stuff but I feel pretty safe for the vast majority of my data which is just being protected by raid6.
 
wow, that's pathetic.

Next thing you know, facebook and myspace will be down. We'll all be like "uh.. what happened"
3-4 hours later... "Owner(s) of facebook accidently overwrote their data. All facebook pages were lost"

I'd quit... haha.
 
Reading about this made me upgrade my backup system a bit. Now, I have current copies of my files on 3 systems, and my full set of incremental backups locally on RAID 1 and an external hard drive, and remotely on 2 different continents. It would take a pretty extraordinary series of events for me to lose more than an hour of data, and if that happened, I think I'd have bigger problems than my missing source code.
 
illuminate said:
Next thing you know, facebook and myspace will be down. We'll all be like "uh.. what happened"

3-4 hours later... "Owner(s) of facebook accidently overwrote their data. All facebook pages were lost"
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If that happened it would be classified as a miracle and prove the existence of God.
 
houkouonchi said:
幸せなど要らんわ！ =P
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変なやつ。。。

幸せではないなら、なにする？
 
and they didnt even have an offsite backup?
jeez.. talk about careless


sometimes i wish i was insanely rich and could just throw my money anywhere, like.. buying the domain and making some epic fail page with whats left of the hosting contract
 
Ockie said:
I really find it hard that not a single copy was kept. wowsers.
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But they had RAID backup......


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


I read about this the other day. You would think they would at least lie and say their backup drive was fucked.
 
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