Got back-up? Entire issue of Business 2.0 lost two weeks before press time
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix Real Estate,
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Category: Marketing,Real Estate,Technology
From TechCrunch:
The June issue of Business 2.0 magazine was inadvertently deleted from the editorial server on April 23, according to a number of sources. And the backup server wasn’t working properly. The result? An entire issue down the drain just two weeks before press time.[....]
A 2003 article in Business 2.0 likened backups to flossing – “everyone knows it’s important, but few devote enough thought or energy to it.” I guess Business 2.0 forgot to floss.
Ouch!
One can only hope that the Chief Technology Officer’s resume was on another computer. It seems likely he’ll be needing it…
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Technology aside, there is really no reason something like this should happen in a multi-person organization. Any given issue is a collection of pieces of work from many different people and should be able to be easily recreated. I can’t believe they didn’t have a checks-and-balances system in place.
Since the governor of NJ got in the bad car accident (where he did not where his seatbelt) I immediately became obsessive about putting my seatbelt on, even if to re-park my car. It stinks that awful things need to happen to whack people into shape.
It is amazing that this can even happen! I guess I’m part of the “Ctrl+S, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+S every 30 seconds” era… And to imagine such hard work WASTED by such a careless act?
…OR the loss of the data could have been the fault of aliens, hackers, or memory-attacking fuzzy bunnies…
Excellent reminder that I need to get on the ball in this area. The backup resource I’ve had in my planner to subscribe to for awhile is Mozy: http://mozy.com/mozy/overview
I wouldn’t mind a referral on other backup services. For just $4.95 it would seem hard to beat, but I’m not a techie….
I read this article and about laughed my arse off. I have told people over and over again to backup their stuff, but they don’t listen.
I still get calls every month from some poor soul whos hard drive crashed.
I’ve even done articles on easy ways to backup your data and i bet people still don’t listen
[...] Remember to backup everything and keep multiple copies. Don’t do what Business 2.0 just did and loose their entire next isssue. See story at Bloodhound and Techcruch. When I read the news about Business 2.0 loosing the issue I did kinda laugh. I bet somewhere there is loosing their job [...]