How to refer to what has happened here at HN

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thejumper5

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So as a user-base, I think it is important that we come to an agreement about what to call what has happened today at HN. I nominate calling it "The time warp." Any other suggestions?
Go Hawkeye Football! (Just though I would say that so this doesn't get moved from the football forum).
 
RobKong said:
how about "Jon's hard lesson of always keeping a db backup off site?" ;)
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How is that Jon's problem? That's all on the hosting company. That's what you pay them money for. How would Jon backup data that not on-site for him to touch? Is he supposed to drive to wherever the server farm is and back it up every week?
 
storminspank said:
How is that Jon's problem? That's all on the hosting company. That's what you pay them money for. How would Jon backup data that not on-site for him to touch? Is he supposed to drive to wherever the server farm is and back it up every week?
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Stormin - Couldn't Jon have an FTP connection and download the HN dB directory files to his local Hard Drive? I'm retired now, but I used that method of file backup, when the host site did not have an automatic backup. I even had a utility program that automatically connected and replaced the files locally each night.
 
OK..............bring me us up to speed, fellas.

What caused 'The Incident'?

Thanks in advance for a simplified answer to a complex problem.
 
I'm pretty sure this is what happened: Some dork in a windowless room stacked too many lord of the rings figurines on a shelf and it collapsed knocking over a 5 week old half-full bottle of mountain dew that spilled onto a server shorting it out and erasing all data. Approximately.
 
eyekwah said:
Stormin - Couldn't Jon have an FTP connection and download the HN dB directory files to his local Hard Drive? I'm retired now, but I used that method of file backup, when the host site did not have an automatic backup. I even had a utility program that automatically connected and replaced the files locally each night.
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Nowadays, that's what you pay the ISP/hosting company for. Any self-respecting hosting company images its server / takes snapshots / etc...

Jon could get a FTP connection, maybe even a VPN to "his" server, I'd assume. I'm not sure if he'd have to do incremental backups due to the size of the site or not. I am sure the user db itself is pretty large. That's why on-site backup (to either tape or HDD or whatever) makes more sense.
 
RobKong said:
how about "Jon's hard lesson of always keeping a db backup off site?" ;)
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storminspank said:
How is that Jon's problem? That's all on the hosting company. That's what you pay them money for. How would Jon backup data that not on-site for him to touch? Is he supposed to drive to wherever the server farm is and back it up every week?
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When referring to the "db backup", he may have been referring to you... his backup, that happens to be a "db". :p (had to do it)
 
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