3Started work at 9:30am this morning and saw Ross’ Twitter status:
Hard Disk Crashes – Are You Prepared?
Via TechNation, The Podcast Network, probably the world’s first podcasting network, went offline on Saturday due to technical issues, i.e. crashed hard drive(s) on their dedicated server. As of now (Monday, 48 hours later), the site is still not back. On Saturday Dec 20, the hard drive on TPN’s server suddenly died. We are in [...]
DreamHost Now Offers Personal Backup Space
First of all, I did admit that I used DreamHost web space for personal backups. It’s fast, much more scriptable than Amazon S3, and have lots of space in my $10/month web hosting package — why not?! Except it is against their ToS and they have been cracking down on users using their allocated space [...]
Offsite Backup, Take 2
Jeremy Zawodny’s blog post from early last month has prompted me to look at offsite backup solutions again. Currently I am backing up all my websites, from various servers and accounts, to my home server using rsnapshot, running at 4am every morning. So far so good, and I loves the flexibility of rsnapshot. I guess [...]