Backup Your Data. No, REALLY

Slashdot | Hacker Destroys Avsim.com Along With Its Backups: "Hacker Destroys Avsim.com Along With Its Backups
Posted by timothy on Friday May 15, @12:17AM
from the giving-you-the-benefit-of-their-bad-childhoods dept.
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el americano writes 'Flight Simulator community website Avsim has experienced a total data loss after both of their online servers were hacked. The site's founder, Tom Allensworth, explained why 13 years of community developed terrains, skins, and mods will not be restored from backups: 'Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation.''"


As one anonymous reader posted on /. OFF. SITE. BACKUP. Rule number one. You only loose your server once and then you learn. Always have a full up to date backup of your server off site just in case.

/me runs to make sure his backup drive isn't full.