07-13-2004, 07:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Pocket PC Passion Down
I have some sad news from Dale. Some of you have been posting about the fact that his site went down last week, when the following message was posted:
Quote: Our apologies for the unscheduled maintenance that has temporarily taken www.pocketpcpassion.com offline. Due to a monitored drive failure in the RAID system, we have taken the opportunity to not only to replace the affected drive, which normally does not affect website availability, we have also opted to update the operating system to Windows Server 2003 for improved security...Please check back later today when the system should be back online. Thank you.
Unfortunately, problems have compounded. According to Dale's ISP, a hard disk and the RAID controller both died... and the tape backups are apparently corrupted. 8O :cry: The hosting company is in the process of sending the media to a data recovery company. I'm really sad to hear this, and I wish Dale the best of luck in getting his site back up. We've all got our fingers crossed for him... and rest assured if I hear any further news, I'll post it here.
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07-13-2004, 07:02 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Thanks for the update.
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07-13-2004, 07:44 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I'm really sorry to hear this. I wish the best to Dale and hope he is able to get everything back up soon.
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07-13-2004, 07:46 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2002
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Dale has had a history of bad luck with hard drives. Before he kept the server locally...the drive crashed and burned. Looks like lightening can strike twice.
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07-13-2004, 08:55 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
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thats no fun
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07-13-2004, 10:17 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Speaking of which, you'd be astonished how many hosting firms claim to keep backups, but don't. It's merely a marketing ploy to keep up with the 'big boys'. Internally, managers and the accountants claim failures happen too rarely to make the expenditure worth it
Thing is, they probably have a point.
This sounds like genuine bad luck though :cry:
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07-13-2004, 10:19 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Tapes... I don't like tapes... It seems like the words "corrupted" and "tape" have some sort of attraction to each other. I guess now you need a backup of the tape, in case it gets corrupted... :?
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07-13-2004, 10:19 PM
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Philosopher
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Originally Posted by David Johnston
Speaking of which, you'd be astonished how many hosting firms claim to keep backups, but don't. It's merely a marketing ploy to keep up with the 'big boys'. Internally, managers and the accountants claim failures happen too rarely to make the expenditure worth it
Thing is, they probably have a point.
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That's why it's important to require a verifiable test restoration at some point to see how well protected you are. I wonder how well covered Pocket PC Thoughts is.
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07-13-2004, 10:23 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Originally Posted by bbarker
That's why it's important to require a verifiable test restoration at some point to see how well protected you are.
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Exactly. The best backups in the world are useless if you can't restore them.
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07-13-2004, 11:18 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by bbarker
I wonder how well covered Pocket PC Thoughts is.
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We back up every third database entry to an 8-track tape once every full moon. :way to go:
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