Always check your backups!

[Red Squirrel]

So today I go to restore the latest backup of my game server to the test center as I occasionally refresh all the data on there, only to find out that the offsite backup job has not run in over a week!

Thankfully I caught that as if there had been a disaster wiping the whole server with the existing backups, I would have been so screwed. That was a good catch...

Always check your backups!

 

[SonnyDaze]

Noted. :thumbsup:

 

[MovingTarget]

:thumbsup: Good advice!

 

[Modular]

What are these backups you speak of?

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: Modular
What are these backups you speak of?

The photocopies of the playboys you keep in a fireproof safe in a separate building.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Newbian

Originally posted by: Modular
What are these backups you speak of?

The photocopies of the playboys you keep in a fireproof safe in a separate building.

I have Aquaman, why would I need "hard" copies?

 

[Joemonkey]

backups are a myth, everything exists in the "cloud" these days right?

 

[guyver01]

Ever wonder where a backup company keeps THEIR backup?

maybe we should use that company instead?

 

[silverpig]

No no no, you gotta run windows ME, unpatched, on an overclocked system to do your term paper that's due the next morning with auto-save turned off.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Originally posted by: silverpig
No no no, you gotta run windows ME, unpatched, on an overclocked system to do your term paper that's due the next morning with auto-save turned off.

 

[Modelworks]

As soon as the punch cards finish , I'll get right on it !
Really need to upgrade.
Ever see what 1TB of porn takes up in punch cards, damn what a mess.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: silverpig
No no no, you gotta run windows ME, unpatched, on an overclocked system to do your term paper that's due the next morning with auto-save turned off.

I hosted a Tribes server on a Windows ME box that had an uptime of more than 6 months.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: silverpig
No no no, you gotta run windows ME, unpatched, on an overclocked system to do your term paper that's due the next morning with auto-save turned off.

I hosted a Tribes server on a Windows ME box that had an uptime of more than 6 months.

ME's gotten a bad rap that I don't think it deserves. MS screwed up by not going with a NT based Windows, but ME was just as good as 98SE in my experience(but not as good as 2kpro).

 

[DayLaPaul]

I didn't read the post, but I give you props for citing the full path along with the url.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Oh yes, I split my hard drive into two equal-sized partitions. Everything is safely backed up on the other partition. I are smart.

 

[Paperdoc]

Agree! Always check your backups. Here's on old (late '60's) tale. A young systems programmer at our small university ran a badly-designed routine Friday afternoon that wiped out all the data files on the disk drive units. (This was a central mainframe IBM System 360/50 machine.) The problem was recognized right away and the backup tapes mounted to restore. The OS could not read the backup tapes! It became apparent that the system operators made the backups faithfully, but never tried to read them or verify them. Moreover, this OS had been in use by a large number of sites elsewhere for over half a year, and this was the first time anyone had reported the problem! They got very lucky. They hypothesized that the write routine simply had a small glitch that wrote some info the read routine did not expect, and set to work re-writing (assembler machine code) a read routine to get around the most likely type of error. It worked almost the first time, and they succeeded in restoring over the weekend.

 

[Arcadio]

Also, keep a backup off-site, just in case. What if an asteroid falls on your room and destroys originals and backups... So always keep an extra backup somewhere else. In a different city or country, if possible.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
Also, keep a backup off-site, just in case. What if an asteroid falls on your room and destroys originals and backups... So always keep an extra backup somewhere else. In a different city or country, if possible.

In these case these are off site backups (the source is in texas) but yeah, all my home based stuff had no offsite until a few weeks ago. I now have a job that backs it up twice a month via rsync. At least the most critical stuff, stuff like p2p downloads I could live without if a disaster happened.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Oh yes, I split my hard drive into two equal-sized partitions. Everything is safely backed up on the other partition. I are smart.

Hell yes! Good thing the entire HD could never, ever go bad

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Oh yes, I split my hard drive into two equal-sized partitions. Everything is safely backed up on the other partition. I are smart.

Hell yes! Good thing the entire HD could never, ever go bad

What I do is just make two partitions and make them into a raid1, you get better redundancy.

Or you can make 4 partitions and make it raid 10 for better performance.