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01-02-2009, 01:46 PM
RAID is good for hardware failure but not for software failure without backups:
The Dangers of Casual Information Backup
JournalSpace, which has been around for almost six years now as a prominent blogger website, is done. Due to a catastrophic data loss, either due to software error or malicious intent, the website managers have lost the entire contents of the blogs stored upon it.
Date: January 2, 2009of about 100,000 among websites, and with nearly 14,000 viewers per month, JournalSpace was a relatively high-traffic website. The data loss is impossible to correct and JournalSpace is effectively destroyed.
On a technical side, what occurred is still unclear. JournalSpace maintains their server on what is known as a RAID configuration, where everything written to one hard drive is 'mirrored' to the other drive in a duplicate image. So if the main storage unit breaks down, all the data is stored on another duplicate and it's an easy enough job for an individual to simply switch over to the working drive. Most any computer can be configured for RAID with a minimum of effort.
JournalSpace had taken no other effort to back up their data other than constantly mirroring the drives. The damage that occurred then was not physical, but rather based in software. Whether due to a catastrophic operating system failure (OS X) or malicious intent, the contents of both drives have been completely overwritten. Akin to reformatting your hard drive, this means that the data is completely irretrievable.
JournalSpace.com is intending to sell their domain name and trademarks, and an enterprising investor may find this a good time to grab a valuable piece of electronic real estate. But for a large part of the blogging community, it is the end of a six-year voyage, and one that could have been easily avoided by the correct procedures for data storage and retrieval.
Original Article:
http://journalspace.com/this_is_the_way_the_world_ends /not_with_a_bang_but_a_whimper.html 2 Jan 09
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1355618/journalspace_is_no_more.html
The Dangers of Casual Information Backup
JournalSpace, which has been around for almost six years now as a prominent blogger website, is done. Due to a catastrophic data loss, either due to software error or malicious intent, the website managers have lost the entire contents of the blogs stored upon it.
Date: January 2, 2009of about 100,000 among websites, and with nearly 14,000 viewers per month, JournalSpace was a relatively high-traffic website. The data loss is impossible to correct and JournalSpace is effectively destroyed.
On a technical side, what occurred is still unclear. JournalSpace maintains their server on what is known as a RAID configuration, where everything written to one hard drive is 'mirrored' to the other drive in a duplicate image. So if the main storage unit breaks down, all the data is stored on another duplicate and it's an easy enough job for an individual to simply switch over to the working drive. Most any computer can be configured for RAID with a minimum of effort.
JournalSpace had taken no other effort to back up their data other than constantly mirroring the drives. The damage that occurred then was not physical, but rather based in software. Whether due to a catastrophic operating system failure (OS X) or malicious intent, the contents of both drives have been completely overwritten. Akin to reformatting your hard drive, this means that the data is completely irretrievable.
JournalSpace.com is intending to sell their domain name and trademarks, and an enterprising investor may find this a good time to grab a valuable piece of electronic real estate. But for a large part of the blogging community, it is the end of a six-year voyage, and one that could have been easily avoided by the correct procedures for data storage and retrieval.
Original Article:
http://journalspace.com/this_is_the_way_the_world_ends /not_with_a_bang_but_a_whimper.html 2 Jan 09
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1355618/journalspace_is_no_more.html