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Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good

Posted by kdawson on from the lost-in-the-clouds dept.

miller60 writes "The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all its user data was irretrievably lost in the Jan. 30 database crash that knocked the service offline. Ma.gnolia founder Larry Halff recently discussed the crash and the lessons to be learned from Ma.gnolia's experience. A lesson for users: don't assume online services have lots of staff and servers, and always keep backup copies of your data. Ma.gnolia was a one-man operation running on two Mac OS X servers and four Mac minis."

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  1. Your bookmarks belong.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ba ha ha ha....all your bookmarks are belong to us...until we put them into the bit bucket and then they are belong to no one!!!!

  2. Slashdot is backed up, right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    kdawson and cmdrtaco-

    This is the part where you remind us that Slashdot is robust, redundant, and backed up.

  3. Re:Mac reliability by icannotthinkofaname · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey! I play Pokemon, you insensitive clod!

    No, really, I do. *looks up Pokedex on Diamond card* On my Pokemon Diamond card, which I've had since release, I have 387 obtained and 407 owned. The save file is going on 150 hours of gameplay time.

    However, I do not own a Zune or any Apple products, so we're all good on those two points.

    --
    Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.