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Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups

Posted by timothy on from the giving-you-the-benefit-of-their-bad-childhoods dept.

el americano writes "Flight Simulator community website Avsim has experienced a total data loss after both of their online servers were hacked. The site's founder, Tom Allensworth, explained why 13 years of community developed terrains, skins, and mods will not be restored from backups: 'Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation.'"

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  1. Re:yes we had backups by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, we have to care? I thought we were supposed to point and laugh...

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  2. Re:Really? by RattFink · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone who hacks a flight-sim sight has no life and really needs to get laid.

    Coming from a slashdotter that is pretty rough.

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  3. Of course I have an extra set of keys.. by droidsURlooking4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I kept them in my other pocket.

  4. Public Viewing by jeric23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A public viewing will be available at:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20080116064652/http://www.avsim.com/

    No date has been set for the funeral.

  5. Re:This should be a lesson... by darkpixel2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thirteen years is a lot of data.

    Bah--it's not that bad. They actually have crude backups of all their terrain data. They just have to figure out how to restore from 'IRL' format.

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  6. Re:This should be a lesson... by LaskoVortex · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about we start shooting people who can't recognize jokes. Sheesh.

    Then who would mod for slashdot?

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  7. Re:This should be a lesson... by magarity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, we can make a good car analogy out of this: Having a backup car in case your primary car crashes is a great idea (if you can afford it). Except that instead of keeping their backup car locked in the garage, these people attached their backup car to their primary car with a tow bar and dragged it around everywhere they went. When the primary car crashed, the backup ran into it a fraction of a second later. Now they're sad that their backup car is dead too and are somehow suprised they don't have anything to drive.

  8. Addition to the lesson... by geekmux · · Score: 5, Funny

    To any sysadmins and DBAs...

    Make sure you have offsite backups

    Any person in the IT community who was alive to remember the events of 9/11 should have learned a valuable IT lesson from that event.

    Repeat after me. I will not store my "offsite" backups in the other tower.

  9. Re:Lies, damn lies. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    (images, old versions of personal websites, video montages, etc).

    That's not an archive, pal, that's evidence.

    You wanna destroy that stuff, the sooner the better.

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  10. Re:Lies, damn lies. by Mr2cents · · Score: 5, Funny

    Note to self: never, ever ask you about your hobbies.

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