Our Server’s Hard Drive is Dead. We didn’t have a backup.
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#2"We need to get programming talent on-board." Sounds to me like they still haven't learned their lesson...
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#3On the plus side, this will probably only ever happen to you once. Once you've felt the pain, you'll never let it happen again.
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#4"We need to get programming talent on-board." Sounds to me like they still haven't learned their lesson...
What do you mean?
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#5"Technical support informed me that my first HD died 20 days into my contract. The backup HD hummed along for a year."
That sounds more like RAID than a backup HD.
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#6On the plus side, this will probably only ever happen to you once. Once you've felt the pain, you'll never let it happen again.
However remember that backups are only half of the disaster recovery picture. You need to have a tested restore process ready to go as well.
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#7How many people did it affect? I would be too ashamed to admit it if i was a company offering services for programmers but didn't back up my server.
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#8"We need to get programming talent on-board." Sounds to me like they still haven't learned their lesson...
What do you mean?
I mean that Systems Administration is as thoroughly exhausting a career path as programming. They didn't lose information because they coded something wrong or inadequately.
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#9I don't understand, you had a backup HD - that means you had a RAID setup. Why didn't your host replace the damaged hard disk ? In my experience hosts usually monitor RAID health on their servers and if there is a problem they replace the bad hard drives at the quickest opportunity.. and I'm talking about budget hosts.
EDIT: Too many to respond to below so just editing in here. The author mentioned that the primary hard disk had failed over a year ago - but he didn't know about that (the host informed him of this... now?). That points to a RAID setup where the mirror was basically working all this while. That's what I'm talking about in this post.
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