[Gllug] Terrible weekend

Minty mintywalker at gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 15:08:29 UTC 2006


On 3/5/06, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
> Bernard Peek wrote:
> > I've been managing computers for 20 years and in that time I've only
> > ever had to restore files for one reason, someone deleted a file that
> > they shouldn't have.
>
> I've been involved with two major incidents where a backup regime as
> previously described has saved the day.

And I've twice, from seperate hosting companies, had a redundant
raided disk setup fail.  Once the drives caught fire and all melted,
the second time the raid controller went funny and garbled the disks.

I will freely admit that I was on the budget end of the market in both
cases, but hey...
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