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>Computers are weird things... That's not very encouraging, coming from a data storage company employee.

• memracom 13y ago
  It might not be encouraging but it is honest and it is factual. No company, however much you might wish it, can do magical things. At best, you can leverage the laws of large numbers to do things which are apparently magical to those people who do not have an understanding of maths, technology and engineering. This is exactly how stage magicians accomplish their tricks. A solid understanding of physics and high precision engineering.
  • GigabyteCoin 13y ago
    A data storage company losing data isn't confined to the realms of Magic. It's incompetence, and lack of backups on their part. The company that suggests you take backups of your data on their servers does not keep backups of their data. How humorous. The company that prides itself on profiting by the skin of it's teeth ($5/mo for unlimited data storage and transfer), and there are issues that arise from that severe cost cutting. Surprise, surprise.
• kibibu 13y ago
  You've never had a problem solved by turning it off and on again?
  • GigabyteCoin 13y ago
    Not with a real operating system like linux, no. I have never truly solved a computer problem by rebooting a computer. I sure hope that's not the modus operandi at BB.
    • atYevP 13y ago
      70% of the time it works all the time? We haven't yet gotten the logs so we don't know what happened, but we take this stuff very seriously. At the end of the day we're a backup company, it's a serious business and even though we try to have fun and be entertaining with these blog posts and stats, our core job is to ensure folks don't lose data.