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Amazon EC2 Crash Caused Data Loss

Posted by timothy on from the but-that-was-off-site-backup! dept.

Relayman writes "Henry Blodget is reporting that the recent EC2 crash caused permanent data loss. Apparently, the backups that were being made were not sufficient to recover the lost data. Although a small percentage of the total data was lost, any data loss can be bad to a Website operator."

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  1. Did this save Wikileaks? by kulnor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Guess Wikileaks feels good about not being hosted there anymore.... their critical information could have been "lost" as well....

  2. Re:I am not rightly able to comprehend... by Yvanhoe · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is still better than Amazon's plan actually.

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