A Reminder to Backup...

[dricci]

Re: Re: Re: Brossow?

Originally posted by arn
MacRumors hosting was close to $600-700/month at one point -- and that was without a backup solution at all.

Just wondering, arn, how much does it cost to run this site now? I'd imagine around expo time it'd be very costly!

 

[brossow]

Originally posted by pantagruel
ok I may still be pretty new here, but arn is kind of the top dog of macrumors and as a newbie man you probably shouldnt argue with him, not that your shouldnt be entitled to your own opinion because that is definitely not the case (i myself am a victim of this right now on a different thread) but maybe you should just word your replies more carefully, ive seen so far that arn is pretty smart and when he replies to a thread he knows what he is talking about.

Wow. I'm almost speechless. Because I'm recently registered here, I necessarily have less experience than arn and should bow to him? With all due respect to arn, who has provided an unquestionably masterful site, I don't think that's a fair assumption on your part. Talk about shortsighted! Ouch.

 

[rugby]

I know all about losing data. I've done it, twice. Our fileserver at work got flaky and while verifying the boot drive the Users RAID disappeared. I got it back, but all the resource forks were gone from all the files. I hadn't backed up that users partition in 2 weeks (I know, stupid). Now I have a tape drive backing up every night. And every weekend I use CCC to make an asr image just in case.

I also recently lost 80gb worth of info on my home computer. About 50gb worth of mp3's and 30gb worth of DV footage/video projects I was working on. NOT HAPPY. So now I'm re-importing all my cd's and even on a DP867 it's going slow.

lesson here, I'm backing up religiously. I'm backing up to dvd here at home because I don't have a tape drive. I also back up to a Mac OS X Server here at home that does nothing but serve files.

 

[mike3k]

After I had a problem like that with BounceWeb (which I use to host both MacMegasite & WorldBeatPlanet), I'm now running a script on my own machine to do nightly backups.

I have a cron job run at midnight that does a mysqldump on both site databases and saves it on my own machine, rotating the nightly backups to keep the last 5 days.

 

[BenderBot1138]

I kinda thought something wonky was going on that morning... any other news about its cause?

 

[wdlove]

Thank you arn for your labor of love, hosting the Mac Forums. What is the total cost with backups for running Mac Forums. Thanks to your sponsors also, they must have a soft spot for Mac people!

I backup every other day, it has proved invaluable more than once, currently using an internal Zip 100.

 

[arn]

Originally posted by pantagruel
ok I may still be pretty new here, but arn is kind of the top dog of macrumors and as a newbie man you probably shouldnt argue with him, not that your shouldnt be entitled to your own opinion because that is definitely not the case (i myself am a victim of this right now on a different thread) but maybe you should just word your replies more carefully, ive seen so far that arn is pretty smart and when he replies to a thread he knows what he is talking about.

heh... while I'm flattered... everyone is certainly welcome to their opinion regardless of whether or not they agree with me.

I'm am certainly no expert in many areas... and web/server hosting is one of those areas I had to pick up on the go.

arn