Arrrgh…. The backups didn’t work
July 24, 2007 by Graham Doel
Filed under Life
A couple of years ago I got sick of loosing files when my computer crashed. So I created database and stored it on the Internet. I put all my preparation and files into the database. Then I rather cleverly configured the server to e.mail a daily backup of the file to a google mail account. “now”, I thought, “I will never loose any thing due to a computer crash”.
I moved my Internet service account. and intended to restore the database in due course. Due course came today when I needed something and I discovered that the backup only kept information about the table not the actual data.
Hours and hours of work have been lost because I didn’t check the backups were working properly. I am gutted!
Catriona on Wed, 25th Jul 2007 8:51 am
That is trully pants, as the saying goes. Back to those funny round things called DVDs/CDs or those little plug in memory sticks I guess?
Technology-spit!
Graham Doel on Wed, 25th Jul 2007 11:25 am
Update: I found a copy of all but two of the pieces of writing. Phew!
tim bulkeley on Thu, 26th Jul 2007 11:53 pm
Backup is STILL a real problem, you’d think that with all the technology and how it has improved it would be easy… But… If a techno warrior who does clever stuff like “configuring the server to e.mail” gets stuffed, what hope for mere mortals!?
How come no one makes a USB harddrive that when plugged in automatically backs up the directories it is told to, or even better does an incremental of the whole host drive. That would be simple, and almost foolproof, quite cheap and I could have two one at home one at work and be pretty safe…