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I suspect he is referring to the fact that Magnolia lost all their data a little while back due to a poor backup policy (I forget the exact details).

• idlewords 17y ago
  The details are worth remembering. They had an enormous database (half a terabyte or so) due to their decision to store cached content in database tables. Their backup strategy was to try to sync their live DB files to another machine over firewire. When the master database eventually got corrupted, they dutifully rsynced the corrupt files over to the "backup". Once the database finally rolled over and died, they claimed to be unable to recover any user data at all from the hard drives. But it seems they never bothered to go to a vendor specializing in MySQL recovery. Offers of help from Percona went unanswered, at least in public. Full disclosure - I run a competing site (pinboard.in). Magnolia's stunning negligence in securing user data, and Larry Halff's attempts to cast himself as a victim of internet trolls when confronted by his angry users, are pretty much what motivated me to start the project.
  • jrockway 17y ago
    This is a much better reply than someone else's a few levels up. You analyzed the mistakes and you decided to learn from them and create a competing product. That is much more enjoyable to read about than "that guy is an idiot". I wish I could upmod twice.
  • ErrantX 17y ago
    Thanks for that :)