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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!"
2. Download my S3 backup script (or anyone's S3 Backup script) - http://github.com/leftnode/S3-Backup
3. Set up a cron to push hourly/daily/whatever tar's of your vhost's directory to S3.
Spend, like, $10 a month. Thats 30gb of storage, 30gb up and 30gb down. Now, I know that may not be a lot, but I doubt codinghorror.com had that much data.
To be fair, Atwood thought his hosting provider (CrystalTech) was backing up his system. As it turns out, their entire VM backup solution failed silently, so everyone thought the backups were being made. If anything, I'd say this is a sign not to work with CrystalTech.
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!"
1. Register an Amazon AWS S3 account - https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/... 2. Download my S3 backup script (or anyone's S3 Backup script) - http://github.com/leftnode/S3-Backup 3. Set up a cron to push hourly/daily/whatever tar's of your vhost's directory to S3. Spend, like, $10 a month. Thats 30gb of storage, 30gb up and 30gb down. Now, I know that may not be a lot, but I doubt codinghorr…
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To be fair, Atwood thought his hosting provider (CrystalTech) was backing up his system. As it turns out, their entire VM backup solution failed silently, so everyone thought the backups were being made. If anything, I'd say this is a sign not to work with CrystalTech.
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)
But I wonder if this eventually turns out as a case study for "How to backup an entire site using the archives and search engine caches"
I know it's hard; but everything is _there preserved_ anyway. So it _is possible_