Is MT.O backed up?

[ari6126]

CPF seems to have lost 4 months of posts. Could that happen here?

[Grant Lamontagne]

There's always the possibility of a catastrophic failure wiping out the entire server, but the forum should be safe.  It may be down for a couple of days for reconstruction, but we have a daily backup, meaning our worst case scenario is that we should lose a maximum of 24 hours worth of posts. In the event that the backup was corrupt, we store the last 30 days of backups, so hopefully that means we should be able to back up from one of the previous days.

Of course I hope it never happens, but we should be covered if it does.  Still, I imagine CPF may have thought the same thing, and probably had similar measures in place.  The reality is that anything can happen- for example, if the forum was compromised by some kind of forum eating bug, then we'd have a lot of infected and corrupt backups to draw on, and that probably wouldn't help us very much- we'd have to go back to the last time we were clean, if such a backup existed, and we could loose an awful lot of info.

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[zepla]

People say once it is on the internet, it will be there forever....tell that to the CPF guys   

[Carlos]

People say once it is on the internet, it will be there forever....tell that to the CPF guys 

That only works for the stuff you aren't interested in.

[zepla]

Or stuff you do want to get rid of...

[PyroJames]

People say once it is on the internet, it will be there forever....

Like pictures of a guy prancing around in a dress...

[Nikos]

People say once it is on the internet, it will be there forever....tell that to the CPF guys 

Well, it is. Sort of... Check these out. These archives can't really keep up with quickly changing material (such as forums) but they do well for many other web pages out there.

[jekostas]

Catastrophic failure with the last comprehensive backup done in November of 2010.

Sometimes it's difficult to truly tell the difference between bad luck and stupidity, but CPF is showing that line right now. 

Four full months of posts gone because the admins didn't have a comprehensive backup strategy.  Now they'll have to shell out for professional data recovery.