This has to be tough. I run a small server that includes email hosting and an image gallery site that numerous people contribute to, and I get a lot of question

This has to be tough. I run a small server that includes email hosting and an image gallery site that numerous people contribute to, and I get a lot of questions or complaints when it is down (usually bad network or a brief DC power outage). I have been using SSH and rsync for a long time to pull the contents of every important directory on that server to a local Solaris server running a RAIDZ pool and time slider (so I do get incremental backup). I didn't actually lose data like Jeff, but the datacenter the server was in decided to kill the power to the machine 2 weeks before the scheduled date (poor processes and a move to a different building) and I didn't get any notification before it happened. It took another 3 weeks for them to ship my machine back to me. Becuase I had nightly backups I was able to restore email and the photo site to a new Linode instance in a few hours. Without those backups I would have been hurting bad.