Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution

[Lazybones]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F02%2F1546214&from=rss


Well someone found out the hard way, didn't they.

Hard to believe the site was up that long and no one bothered to implement a backup solution, of ANY KIND!

[Darren Dirt]

The "millions of voices ... silenced" comment was funny. But this really sums up a lot of /. pages don't it...

DUH! (Score:5, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 02, @12:27PM (#26301311)
DUH!

^ The fact that it was scored "5, INSIGHTFUL". 




But seriously... Fascinatingly insightful = the JournalSpace guy's blog:
http://journalspace.com/blog/

January 2nd

This sounds like an ancient Chinese curse: "may you be featured on Slashdot and have 80 Twitter followers."

Some more background for the folks who caught the news on Slashdot or another blog: yes, I was a huge idiot, first and foremost.

It was the guy handling the IT (and, yes, the same guy who I caught stealing from the company, and who did a slash-and-burn on some servers on his way out) who made the choice to rely on RAID as the only backup mechanism for the SQL server. He had set up automated backups for the HTTP server which contains the PHP code, but, inscrutibly, had no backup system in place for the SQL data. The ironic thing here is that one of his hobbies was telling everybody how smart he was.

This doesn't excuse what happened, though: I should have taken a better look at what he'd left behind, and fixed all of the things that needed fixing.

Classic. This guy (the "huge idiot") is gotta be thinking about getting out of the IT-related field entirely... Cuz this blog post ain't going away ever...

[Tom]

Lets just place the blame on the retard that they fired.

[Mr. Analog]

@%&# that is hilarious!