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Why You Need Your Own Website Backups

March 11, 2010 by Sallie Goetsch 4 Comments

I was listening to Marketing Over Coffee a few weeks ago and heard a sad tale of woe from co-host John Wall. His blog, Ronin Marketeer, was down for four days. Hosed, in fact. Literally. On February 20th, there was an an accident during the annual inspection of the fire-suppression system at WestHost’s data center. If you rewrite WestHost’s account of the incident in the active voice, it amounts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Loss & Theft, Website Backups Tagged With: Coding Horror, John Wall, Marketing Over Coffee, reminder, Ronin Marketeer, WordPress

Even Geeks Suffer from Data Loss

December 15, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Yesterday the Ur-Guru pointed me to a post on Coding Horror entitled “International Backup Awareness Day.” Coding Horror is normally a blog, and the permalinks to posts don’t normally look like the one I just pasted in there. Depending on when you read this, clicking on that link might get you a “404: Page Not Found” error. Thanks to catastrophic data loss, Coding Horror is only pretending to be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Loss & Theft, Website Backups Tagged With: Blogger, Coding Horror, Ecto, VM, Windows Live Writer, WordPress

A Real Live Backup Scam: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 03-14-08

March 14, 2008 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

It was only a few days after publishing last week's “Are You Paranoid Enough?” Backup Reminder that I heard the sorry tale of G-Archiver, a program designed to back up your Gmail account. Or allegedly designed to back up your Gmail account, anyway. A programmer named Dustin Brooks discovered that G-Archiver did something else: it sent the Gmail IDs and passwords of everyone who had downloaded it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Loss & Theft, E-mail Backups, Online Backup Tagged With: Coding Horror

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