6 Responses to “Warning: Some regular readers of this blog will have nightmares after reading this post”

1. Webomatica Says:
   May 2nd, 2007 at 8:10 pm

   My hard drive died on my MacBook about a month ago, and I’ve had hard disk failures at work as well. I think every time I read a story like this, it should be a sign that it’s time to back up. So I think I’ll do that right now. Thanks.

2. Barbara Mathieson Says:
   May 3rd, 2007 at 8:33 am

   Rex, we had a similar, but not quite so devastating instance, years ago here when an issue of a magazine we used to publish was deleted from the server. We had a few days before press, but not much. We also had back up server problems, and if I remember correctly, we recreated the issue from a three-day old version of the magazine that was on the back up. I’m sure regular reader Bill can elaborate more. I remember one late night, when we stayed to update the three-day old version.

3. Rex Hammock Says:
   May 3rd, 2007 at 8:49 am

   Barbara, I think that experience is one of the reasons we have the current process in place.

4. Hudge Says:
   May 3rd, 2007 at 8:59 am

   I could elaborate more, but won’t - it caused an enormous amount of bad feelings at the time, but as Rex says, much change for the good came out of it. We occasionally still have problems when a file decides to hang an out-to-lunch sign on itself, so I won’t dare to think it couldn’t happen here.

5. Blair Stilwell Says:
   May 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm

   I seem to remember the above mentioned magazine disappearing act. Like Hudge says, so much changed and so much was learned…

6. Rex Hammock Says:
   May 3rd, 2007 at 2:29 pm

   I’m knew this post would cause post-traumatic flashbacks for some people.

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