[LinuxUsers] Using RAID? Read this ...

[Peter Manis]

Thats a huge fail haha, it doesn't bring tears to my eyes.  I do feel
somewhat bad for the owner, who left it up to an idiot, but not having
backups in 6 years is a bit ridiculous so I don't feel THAT bad.  I can see
not having backups for the last year because you got lazy and it wasn't
worth your time, but I doubt they have been running on the same server and
OS for all 6 years, there should have been at least one backup at some point
just for moving the data to another server.

Even though it wasn't a hardware failure and it really wouldn't have done
much in this situation, they really should have been using something a bit
better than RAID1 to start with.  The statements made draw a picture for me
of the guy that was in charge of the server and how "smart" he really was.
Unfortunately there are too many people who give others a bad name by
promising the world for less money and only providing the client with
disappointment.  Sometimes I feel there really needs to be a blacklist of
tech people that should never be allowed to touch anything important.

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com> wrote:

> uh... they hosted it with OS X Server? I'd rather host it with MS
> Windows and WAMP.
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Jeff Lasman <jplists at nobaloney.net> wrote:
> > This story actually brings tears to my eyes...
> >
> >
> http://journalspace.com/this_is_the_way_the_world_ends/not_with_a_bang_but_a_whimper.html
> >
> > And then this:
> >
> > http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://journalspace.com
> >
> > (Note that we do use RAID.  We also use backups.  We backup all data on
> > all servers according to a schedule agreed upon by us and those who
> > rent our dedicated servers.)
> >
> > Jeff
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