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

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Post by nkohari »

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.

I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying that before people get drunk on schadenfreude they should put themselves in Atwood's position. If you pay someone for a service you generally expect it to work when you need it.

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

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Post by DTrejo »

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 anything, I'd say this is a sign not to work with CrystalTech.

After a mistake like this, it may be a sign that they will never mess up again.

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

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Post by ismarc »

andrewcooke wrote: post #41
ismarc wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like someone changed something near the end of June '08 that prevented archive.org from storing the site. Gotta suck.

they have a lag (it's supposed to be 6 months, but they're trailing that at the moment).

Yeah, I knew about the lag, but 1 1/2 years of lag seemed to signify other issues to me.

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

icey wrote: post #21
sjs382 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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!"

Read his newer tweets - his backups were just copies on the same server; they are gone as well, and now he's resorting to using internet caches to restore his content.

[facepalm]

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

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Post by walkon »

natrius wrote: post #49
walkon wrote: post #43

Here's Google's cached version of a post of his about backup strategies: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:2HHNAk2SB6EJ:www.codingh... It ends in what is now irony: "If backing up your data sounds like a hassle, that's because it is. Shut up. I know things. You will listen to me. Do it anyway."

The part you quoted is a quote itself, which could change the meaning for readers like me.

The second sentence was. He quoted it earlier and repeated it at then end as a clear endorsement and agreement of the statement.

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

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Post by potatolicious »

DTrejo wrote: post #53
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 anything, I'd say this is a sign not to work with CrystalTech. After a mistake like this, it may be a sign that they will never mess up again.

I disagree - it's a sign that they will never mess up their VM backup system again.

It's also a sign that they lack experience and competence. So while your odds of suffering this problem are significantly lower, your odds of the infinite number of other problems are still troubling.

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