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

Post by brk » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:44 PM UTC

dnsworks wrote: post #24

nkohari wrote: post #7

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.

If you fail to audit and test your disaster recovery procedures on a regular basis, then you fail at competently maintaining your infrastructure. No excuses.

Post by ismarc » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:51 PM UTC

jsteele wrote: post #18

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://codinghorror.com/ --PidGin128 via bmn

Post by gaius » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:54 PM UTC

dnsworks wrote: post #28

ube wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Automatic validation is done through every backup (and I have my guys do a review of the logs from the nightly cron procedures). Once a month we test our restore procedures.

Post by antirez » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 9:01 PM UTC

Post by nollidge » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 9:02 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?