Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss" • Hacker News Board

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by gfunk911 » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:23 PM UTC

I want to make a snarky comment, but I just feel for the guy.

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by scott_s » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:25 PM UTC

joshwa wrote: post #8

idlewords wrote: post #4

"looks like it's 100% internet search caches for recovery. Any tips on recovering images, which typically aren't cached?" This does not sound like the tweet of a man with backups.

"ugh, server failure at CrystalTech. And apparently their normal backup process silently fails at backing up VM images." http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/6573094832

It's not a backup if it's in the same location and managed by the same process.

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by ube » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:28 PM UTC

scott_s wrote: post #5

Let me get this right: the guy who ran a site whose entire purpose is to make fun of other people's poor programming practices has no external backups?

Well - he is human though he can have a new site now called "backup horrors". All kidding aside - this is horrible. How many people validate their backups on a regular basis? (even once a year)

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by apowell » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:28 PM UTC

This is why I like restoring my backup slice every so often, just to make sure it's there. A couple years ago I had to use archive.org as my external backup, and it wasn't fun.

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by jacobian » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:28 PM UTC

"I had backups, mind you, but they were on the virtual machine itself" (http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/6577510116).

Sigh. When we will ever learn?

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by mrduncan » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:28 PM UTC

scott_s wrote: post #12

joshwa wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"ugh, server failure at CrystalTech. And apparently their normal backup process silently fails at backing up VM images." http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/6573094832

It's not a backup if it's in the same location and managed by the same process.

Also, if you don't regularly test backups they might as well not exist.

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by mncaudill » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:28 PM UTC

His blog gets linked to a lot, for better or worse. That's a blow.

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by jsteele » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:30 PM UTC

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://codinghorror.com/

--PidGin128 via bmn

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by pavs » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:30 PM UTC

/runs and backs up everything.

Re: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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Post by sjs382 » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:31 PM UTC

scott_s wrote: post #5

Let me get this right: the guy who ran a site whose entire purpose is to make fun of other people's poor programming practices has no external backups?

"Coding Horror experienced 100% data loss at our hosting provider, CrystalTech.

I have some backups and I'll try to get it up and running ASAP!"