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The german hosted blogging-service blogg.de accidentally deleted all comments from user weblogs last Friday. This worst case scenario occured when the administrators tried to fight down comment spam platform-wide. And due to corrupt backup files, all previously saved database dumps from mid-August to December 5th are useless. [#]

My 2 cents:

  1. Shouldn’t large user-content-driven sites have local test-environments?
  2. Shouldn’t important backups always be checksummed?

Of course this will never happen here, thanks to WordPress Database Backup.

RT @dertimbo Blogg.de Deletes 4 Months of Comments

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3 Responses to “Blogg.de Deletes 4 Months of Comments”

  1. Hmmmm, someone hasn’t made his homework… ;-) My database backups are running daily by launched by cron jobs. Additionally weekly full backup (–all-databases) is done by another cron job. I use a dead simple shell script here. :-)

  2. Computer said

    Der Service Blogg.de wird von dem Unternehmen
    Interdings GmbH – Wesselingerstr. 28 – D-50999 Köln
    betrieben.

    Interdings? Backup der Datenbums? Computermurks?

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