Comments on: JournalSpace Blogs Gone Forever: No Data Backup

By: SailorSaturn

SailorSaturn — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:01:10 +0000

Well, that was ultimately retarded. I used to have a JS account as a backup journal when I want to write something private to a different audience than my main journal. Now I don’t remember all the friends I have on that service and the ones that I do remember… I don’t know if they’ve even bother rejoining the service.

Guess I’ll be resurrecting another closed account from another online service instead of trying JournalSpace again. It’s a shame especially said account had the nicest journal layout of all my online journal accounts.

By: Data Backup Strategies

Data Backup Strategies — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:24:43 +0000

How could this ever happen to an established blog hosting operation? JournalSpace is really writing its name on history of the Internet.

By: digirandi

digirandi — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:53:58 +0000

that’s why you call data back up important, you should always have back ups of all your data, its a big loss when you really loss all your data

By: Dalirin

Dalirin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:31:09 +0000

I think the site is back because I am seeing free blogs on it.

By: John O'Neill

John O'Neill — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:19:05 +0000

This is an aweful story with no winners. It does hilight the important of understanding the enemy within and accepting that this may come in the form at the hghest technical level. A system can only be protected from privilidged users by spreading redundancy accross not alone multiple systems but also multile agenies and individuals. Any system can be brought down by one person with access and informaton. It is therefore necessary to acept this and provide responsibility and power to rstore to multiple parties.
John

By: Nightsun94

Nightsun94 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:37:51 +0000

This is the second time I’ve had a blog/journal site crash on me. The last time was a hard drive with no possible recovery. The site never came back up. Journalspace seemed like a good place to start anew. It took me several months to re-enter all my poetry.

Yes people should be smarter and back up on a regular basis. But let’s face it, people aren’t. The previous journal site I used, one couldn’t even back up their journal without an email to the owner. And you’d be lucky to get the backup sent to you within a couple weeks. All in all it just sucks.

By: Hosting Admin

Hosting Admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:10:35 +0000

Frankly speaking I have never heard about JournalSpace blog, so it is hard to me to evaluate the situation.

By: datasrecovery

datasrecovery — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:16:54 +0000

bad news :(

By: Ken Barnes

Ken Barnes — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:07:38 +0000

I hate to say this, but this was absolutely avoidable.

When the main (or a senior) member of your IT staff leaves the company, you immediately perform a full check-over of your IT infrastructure. You make SURE that things are being backed up correctly, and that nothing untoward is going on, such as the member of staff leaving his usernames and passwords active.

This quote sums it up:- “A disgruntled member of the Lagomorphics team sabotaged some key servers several months ago after he was caught stealing from the company; as awful as the thought is, we can�t rule out the possibility of additional sabotage”

In short terms…WHY? Why can’t you rule it out? Why weren’t all of his access and passwords revoked? Also, publicising this story (about the member of IT staff stealing) even further doesn’t cover up your incompetence, quite frankly. It makes your company look even worse. There is no scapegoat, here.

I have to say that I’ve never heard of JournalSpace, but if they can’t even take a backup of a couple of hard drives once a day (or, well…once, for that matter), it doesn’t surprise me that this has happened.

By: QuickOnlineTips

QuickOnlineTips — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:52:02 +0000

Here are some rules of backups

1. Backup all your data
2. Backup frequently
3. Take some backups off-site
4. Keep some old backups
5. Test your backups
6. Secure your backups
7. Perform integrity checking

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