Something to be aware of Clancy.

allthumbs · #1 May 3rd, 2006

The Gear Page forum crashed and they couldn't afford to have bought a backup

The server is supposed to hold on to damaged drives for 7 days for data recovery attempts. The server lost the damaged drive. They have totally lost all data unless their last server has a copy stashed somewhere.
Please tell me that can't happen to us. I will sleep better. Here's the link with more details if your interested.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/

Lcjones · #2 May 3rd, 2006

mysql dump ..... can save the world!

The dbase is the most important part!!!! The html/php can easily be rebuilt. Well, maybe not easily. But the dbase is of paramount import!

Les

Clancy · #3 May 3rd, 2006

Yes, we have our site and database automatically backed up on another server nightly. Worst case scenario would be that we would lose a few days of forum posts... I also download to my local computer as well just in case... which is something Gear Page could have done... that wouldn't have cost them anything. I can't understand that... Anyway, I feel for them. I'm sure they are kicking themselves HARD right now.

So, you can sleep easily knowing that Marty.

Clancy

allthumbs · #4 May 3rd, 2006

They got lucky Clancy. Their old server found a copy so they only lost 3 weeks of data. They will be back on May 15th. They are a good source for bts. I'm glad they survived it.

Clancy · #5 May 3rd, 2006

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Originally Posted by allthumbs

They got lucky Clancy. Their old server found a copy so they only lost 3 weeks of data. They will be back on May 15th. They are a good source for bts. I'm glad they survived it.

That's good to hear. It's awful to think of all that work AND time AND information being lost forever.

Note to self... BACKUP MY COMPUTERS TODAY!!!, backup my computers today, backup my computers... backup my...backup... well, maybe I'll leave it until tomorrow, don't have time right now, besides nothing like that will EVER happen to ME.

Clancy