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not sure if I'm more annoyed by the dumbass crackers or webmasters...

• JacobAldridge 17y ago
  Or the BBC Journalists who can't tell the difference between a Hacker, a Cracker, and a back-up process that's Knackered.
• ars 17y ago
  How was the webmaster a "dumbass"? They had backups, but the hacker (yes I know it should be cracker - too bad - that battle is lost), took it out.
  • tvon 17y ago
    "Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers." It sounds like two servers ran the site and backups were jsut swapped between the two, that is a hackneyed setup. Besides, all it takes is burning the backups to DVD once every blue moon to prevent massive data loss.
  • mustpax 17y ago
    I don't want to sound callous, but just duplicating your data once does not constitute a sound backup strategy. You need snapshots and failover redundancy. It's good to have RAID 1 style redundancy for high availability, but if you or someone malicious writes bad data to your primary, you've hosed your backup as well. They had some backups yes, but there is great room for improvement here.