Journalspace.com doesn’t know what backups are
Saw this a while back, but didn’t have time to comment. It appears the post on the data loss is removed, but here’s a post referencing the journalspace data loss.
Essentially, some data was deleted, either accidentally or maliciously, the details are a little murky. But, the site owner’s response was basically, “well, we had RAID”. He then went on to describe what RAID is.
Huh?
Maybe someone should have described to you what RAID is (and isn’t). RAID is not a backup. Database replication is not a backup. Clustering is not a backup. My lord, if your business relies on data, you might want to be a little more careful about it.
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This happens quite often (like I need to tell you, and it’s disappointing when you see businesses being run under the assumption that RAID will protect their data under any circumstance. I’m surprised this was made so public. Going by how the posts were yanked so quickly, it looks like some embarrassment ensued. Or they were sued.
Yeah. I was surprised to see how adamant he was that he was in the clear with regards to RAID. He even went on to explain what RAID is, I guess without actually understanding what RAID protects against. It is scary. I’m uber paranoid with my data (even my non-critical data). It’s amazing that you can run your own company and not be.