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By: The Rambling DBA: Jonathan Kehayias : A Major Lesson to Learn from 2009 – Don’t Just Backup, Test Recovery

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:25:41 +0000

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By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:43:32 +0000

Actually, the worse has yet to be noticed by Slashdot/other tech sites:

In 2006:

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2006/05/journalspace_down.php

“Early Friday morning, a hard drive in the main server that hosts the live Journalspace site experienced a hardware failure. We have worked around the clock to fix the problem, and restore our members’ data from a recent backup. However, due to the nature of this failure, some of our backup was also corrupted.”

In other words, 2 1/2 years ago, they nearly bit the dust, and they didn’t learn their lesson then.

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Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:23:33 +0000

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links for 2009-01-03 | Yostivanich.com — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:05:27 +0000

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Mirroring isn’t a backup solution - SQL Server with Mr. Denny — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:47:51 +0000

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By: K. Brian Kelley

K. Brian Kelley — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:07:30 +0000

How sad to lose the company on one of the most basic of IT functions.

By: Ian Kirk

Ian Kirk — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:25:32 +0000

Six years lost in mere moments. I cannot imagine the feelings in their stomachs when this news came to them.

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:12:58 +0000

HAHAHA, true – but then, are you doing backups of your blog to your local machine? There's a WordPress plugin that will automatically email them to you, but you only wanna do that if you're using something like GMail with its stupendously large email quotas.

By: David Stein

David Stein — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:08:25 +0000

Brent, remember when you told me months ago that I should buy my own URL and hosting service for my blog. Praise Zod, that I took your advice and did not host it there.