Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution

Craig writes "Journalspace.com has fallen and can't get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the data was lost, their undoing appears to have been that they treated drive mirroring as a backup and have now paid the ultimate price for not having point-in-time backups of the data that was their business." The site had been in business since 2002 and had an Alexa page rank of 106,881. Quantcast said they had 14,000 monthly visitors recently. No word on how many thousands of bloggers' entire output has evaporated.

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Just give up?

[girlintraining]

Slashdot must be populated mostly by engineers and programmers that work on the software side of things, because nobody's considered mentioning a data recovery service, instead giving the "You're doooooooomed! You should have paid your IT people more" line. How very kind everyone here is of other people's technical mistakes. Because none of us have ever seen a bunch of dot files in a directory and typed "rm -rf .*" and then cried after or screwed up some production server with a "minor change"...