Comments on: Ma.gnolia had no backup http://www.vostokstudio.com/blog/magnolia-had-no-backup This is where the Vostok Studio crew blogs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:13:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: despuesdegoogle » Blog Archive » Más sobre el caso Magnolia http://www.vostokstudio.com/blog/magnolia-had-no-backup/comment-page-1#comment-1773 despuesdegoogle » Blog Archive » Más sobre el caso Magnolia Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:53:10 +0000 http://www.vostok.es/blog/?p=755#comment-1773 [...] un tweet aseguraba hace unos días que Ma.gnolia corría sobre 4 Mac Minis, un dato puntualizado en The Cosmonaut: Magnolia era gestionado con dos servidores Mac OS X y cuatro Mac Minis. Cuando menos, un soporte [...] [...] un tweet aseguraba hace unos días que Ma.gnolia corría sobre 4 Mac Minis, un dato puntualizado en The Cosmonaut: Magnolia era gestionado con dos servidores Mac OS X y cuatro Mac Minis. Cuando menos, un soporte [...]

]]> By: Zarate http://www.vostokstudio.com/blog/magnolia-had-no-backup/comment-page-1#comment-1772 Zarate Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:43:00 +0000 http://www.vostok.es/blog/?p=755#comment-1772 It turns out they did have backups. The problem is the DB was corrupted and thus the backups too. That proves that dumping the data to another disk is not enough, you have to be able to *restore* from that data. More info on /.: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/20/1543208 Still, I feel for the people and the guy and we all should learn from this disaster. It turns out they did have backups. The problem is the DB was corrupted and thus the backups too. That proves that dumping the data to another disk is not enough, you have to be able to *restore* from that data.

More info on /.:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/20/1543208

Still, I feel for the people and the guy and we all should learn from this disaster.

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