I know it's no consolation now, but in future I encourage forum admins to organize off-server backups on a regular basis, just in case something like this happens.
And to ad on to that, take the extra effort to get some very stable source on hand to backup. If you are a very large board and every single bit of your site is dead serious to you, and revenue then I would suggest investing in a new home computer all together that performs automatic downloads and dumps of your offshore server. I can tell you after investing in such a system, I have one lieing in the corner, no monitor no keyboard no mouse, just the tower and thats all, 7 bay, 6 harddrive raid, 3 are just for my website, the other 3 are for ftp server. I take care of it to death, I can tell you it has kept me going so many times and I have had many close encounters.
Just for the very serious websites just would like to get that option out, if someone is thinking of doing something like that private message me I have some links to software. The thing is you have a daily archive of backups of the server space consuming, but as I said 3 harddrive (200gb each) just for backup of that 1 server which runs only that 1 site.
07-27-2004, 01:39 AM
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