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I want to make a snarky comment, but I just feel for the guy.

• trickjarrett 17y ago
  Too many of us have been there. Coincidentally I started my own backup process about 20 minutes ago before I saw this story.
• mgorsuch 17y ago
  I'm with ya. This sort of thing can sneak up on you.
• jacquesm 17y ago
  I feel for the guy too, but it really isn't the first time in the last couple of months that some service provider fails at their #1 stated goal: to keep your data safe. And it isn't just the small ones either. For the love of - insert your favorite deity here - please try to restore your backups, and try to do so on a regular basis. If not all you might have is the illusion of a backup. It is a very easy trap to fall in to, and I really am happy this guy writes about it because it seems there are still people that feel that if their data is in the hands of third parties that it is safe. That goes for your stuff on flickr, but it also goes for your google mail account and all those other 'safe' ways to store your data online. In the end you have to ask who suffers the biggest loss if your data goes to the great big back-up drive in the sky, the service provider or you. If the answer is 'you' then go and make that extra backup.
  • pstuart 17y ago
    There's an added bonus to restoring backups on a regular (daily) basis: a one day old instance of the production environment is always available as a playground for training, dev or qa.