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                                 More grumbles
                                        
Along those lines, [1] a webserver yesturday had a very bad hard drive crash
and The Company has been having some difficulty in doing a proper restore
(having to rebuild an entire server, and primarily doing a network based
recover when a (poorly announced, but announced nonetheless) router reboot
caused it to fail part way through (or so I'm lead to believe), so it's
taking some time to get everything back.

But clients are complaining about The Company loosing some, but not all, the
files. And complainint bitterly. Okay, fine. We had a hardware failure. Whole
server blown out of the water. Recovery taking some time, and yes, there was
a window where files may have been lost between the last good backup and the
failure, if any files were updated during that window.

But come on—you have a hosted website and you (or the company that did your
website) don't have a current backup yourself? What's this you say? The
hosting company is responsible for backups? They say they backup? Here, let
me fill you in on something: **THWACK!** Don't ever count on the hosting
company to keep current backups. It would be better (and probably faster
recovery) for you to keep a backup of your site and restore it yourself. Even
if the hosting company keeps good backups, they're usually so large it takes
several hours to recover the data to begin with.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/02/24.1

Email author at sean@conman.org