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I don't know whether my 10+ year side project with 225,000 users(www.webminal.org) gone forever! :( I have backup snapshots but its stored in ovh itself :( ho

by giis 6y ago

I don't know whether my 10+ year side project with 225,000 users(www.webminal.org) gone forever! :( I have backup snapshots but its stored in ovh itself :( hoping for a miracle!

XCSme 6y ago
What was the reason of storing the backup on the same server? To allow for rollbacks in case of data corruption or some changes gone wrong?
- Operyl 6y ago
  I think they’re talking about the backup services provided by OVH, in which I believe they’re stored in RBX.
- giis 6y ago
  Yes, I thought rollbacks will be much easier in case of data loss. :sob:
quickthrower2 6y ago
Really sorry to hear, hope you get it restored. I cannot judge - I use the default backup options in Azure and hope they store it in another data centre but never though to check too hard. This is very bad luck. Hopefully you had the code in GitHub but that still leaves the DB. It looks like your has something to do with command line or Linux lessons so not sure how much user data is critical? Maybe you can get this up and running again to some extent.
kuschku 6y ago
If your backup snapshots are stored through OVH's normal backup functionality, then create a new server at e.g. RBX now, and restore from those backups. That'll take a few hours and it'll all be up again quickly.