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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. I am not rightly able to comprehend... by Man+On+Pink+Corner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... the confusion of ideas that would lead someone to treat their live web server as their primary/master data repository.

    I guess I'm still stuck in Commodore 64 World, or something..

    1. Re:I am not rightly able to comprehend... by zonky · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Congrads. Does your GF have a key to your house? Because your "perfect system" has a single point of failure- a insider who could cause damage to both causing loss of data. Best not get on her bad side for now, anyway....