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Don’t It Yourself
Posted: April 19, 2010 (12:33) under Backups, Intellectual Property

A simple reminder that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Learn from the mistakes of others; as the wise blogger said, you must learn from their mistakes, as you will never live long enough to make enough of your own. You can even learn from my mistake at Diary-X, where I lost a good, solid 400,000 words of blog; that’s FOUR BOOKS WORTH. Did I trust the guy running the site? You bet I did: Steve was a great guy. Did he back everything up? Of course he did.

And he didn’t.

He’d subcontracted the backups out without really reading the fine print about just what was being backed up. It turned out that he’d been paying to back up the technical specs, not the actual blog contents. When the server went kerflooey, you can guess what happened to the thousands of people blogging there: wailing, and the rending of garments.