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

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Post by gfunk911 » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 7:54 PM UTC

From the site:

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!

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 7:56 PM UTC

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Post by wingo » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:02 PM UTC

It's not the sort of thing I like to read, but still, it makes me cringe in sympathy.

/me does a git pull from his weblog

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

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Post by idlewords » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:13 PM UTC

"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.

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

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Post by scott_s » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:13 PM UTC

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?

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:15 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?

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Post by nkohari » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:16 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by joshwa » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:18 PM UTC

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

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Post by walkon » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:21 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?

I don't think that was the main purpose of his blog. I'd point you to some of his posts supporting this, but... :)

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

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Post by mikeryan » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 8:23 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

egads... methinks CrystalTech will be experiencing a mass exodus.

[Also makes me wonder how to test my host's backups]