Just this evening, the server that this blog is on had a weird hardware failure. It just froze and the blog was inaccessible. The rest that followed was some sort of reality check and yet another lesson in making backups of backups. I immediately checked for the internal backups and found out that not all accounts had the latest copy. This blog specifically did not have a complete backup. Apparently, the huge account size (2.6GB) prevented the automated backup service to complete the daily backups. I still have the monthly backups and I could start from there but that would mean that I'll lose several weeks of entries or at most about a month. It reminded me that despite the multiple automated backups, one should also consider regular local backups. Read more in our articles including "Do you make local backups of your blog?" and "Is problogging in recession?".
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Jan 12, 2016Just this evening, the server that this blog is on had a weird hardware failure. It just froze and the blog was inaccessible.
The rest that followed was some sort of reality check and yet another lesson in making backups of backups. I immediately checked for the internal backups and found out that not all accounts had the latest copy. This blog specifically did not have a complete backup.
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