Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 14, 2009 @05:17PM 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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backup? by confused+one · 2009-05-14 17:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

So they say they backed up the server... To the 2nd online server! That is not a backup.
One word for this: by Anenome · 2009-05-14 23:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

"Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers."
LOL.
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