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:
- Shouldn’t large user-content-driven sites have local test-environments?
- Shouldn’t important backups always be checksummed?
Of course this will never happen here, thanks to WordPress Database Backup.
Posted in Quicknotes, Tags:blogging, corrupt, dataloss
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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. :-)
Der Service Blogg.de wird von dem Unternehmen
Interdings GmbH – Wesselingerstr. 28 – D-50999 Köln
betrieben.
Interdings? Backup der Datenbums? Computermurks?