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howamidifferent · 2011-12-22 14:56:14

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=159105 The moral of the story is you can never have enough backups. :D:D

22-12-2011 3:56pm

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http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=159105

The moral of the story is you can never have enough backups. :D

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#2 22-12-2011 3:58pm

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Ouch.... did the money advice website go for cheap ass hosting?

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#3 22-12-2011 3:58pm

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They deserve it to be honest.
What type of company, with so much data and information, DOES NOT TEST THE DAMN BACKUPS !!!
How idiotic to say the least.

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#4 22-12-2011 4:05pm

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Poor Brendan:pac:

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#5 22-12-2011 4:07pm

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I was going to sign up to post this

but cant

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#6 22-12-2011 4:07pm

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Oh God.

Is it too early to criticse?
wtf were they thinking?

I used to post on that site sometimes, great site, I hope they get back up and running (and retain users)

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#7 22-12-2011 4:07pm

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I've seen a public sector organisation that had their backup of their main financial system failing every night for 3 years until one of my colleagues discovered it while working on something unrelated. They were very, very lucky not to have lost 3 years worth of all their transactions!

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#8 22-12-2011 4:09pm

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Is Brendan any relation to Georgie Burgess?

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#9 22-12-2011 4:12pm

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Saves him having to moderate everything he doesnt agree with.

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#10 22-12-2011 4:12pm

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Dr.Silly wrote: »

They deserve it to be honest.
What type of company, with so much data and information, DOES NOT TEST THE DAMN BACKUPS !!!
How idiotic to say the least.

You obviously don't work in IT.

It happens all the time.

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#11 22-12-2011 4:15pm

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All i can say is 'fill yer boots'. ah Brendan!

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#12 22-12-2011 4:17pm

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cadaliac wrote: »

You obviously don't work in IT.

It happens all the time.

Actually, I do .. difference is I'm good at what I do

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#13 22-12-2011 4:20pm

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What post? who? said what? what date? :eek: I can't believe it :eek:, ok, give me five mins and then feel free to search our records.

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#14 22-12-2011 4:21pm

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Ask about money as long as it's not about the single biggest financial decisions you'll ever make (buying a house). Surely they have at least some of it backed up?

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#15 22-12-2011 4:23pm

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Karma acts in mysterious ways.

How long before they add comments about The Backup Cockup to the list of banned topics i.e. House Prices ?

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#16 22-12-2011 5:01pm

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damn i've lost my cool username!!!!

plus they have lost alot of good info on setting up bank accounts in other eu countries

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#17 22-12-2011 5:35pm

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So does that mean that anyone who was banned since August is now not banned? Someone needs to tell the OP of the recent thread on accommodation and property who made the mistake of mentioning future house price falls on aam the other week.

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#18 22-12-2011 6:14pm

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Everything seems to have been retrieved. I guess one of the back-ups was good.

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#19 22-12-2011 6:20pm

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Is there an askabouthosting.com?

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#20 22-12-2011 6:41pm

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Sarn wrote: »

Everything seems to have been retrieved. I guess one of the back-ups was good.

Nope everything is gone on the site I'm looking at.

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#21 22-12-2011 7:06pm

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Brendan Burgess
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We are not allowing new registrations for the moment
We are attempting to see if we can recover the registrations we have lost since July.

So we are not allowing new registrations until this has been sorted so that we don't get duplicate registrations.

if we can't recover the registrations, those who joined since July will have to register again.

Woops

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#22 22-12-2011 7:09pm

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Bet he wishes he could roll the clock back another 4 years, prior to when he was telling us on RTE that we should fill our boots with bank shares.

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#23 22-12-2011 7:17pm

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Dymo wrote: »

Nope everything is gone on the site I'm looking at.

Apologies, I read it wrong, I see only posts from August went missing.

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#24 22-12-2011 7:20pm

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Sarn wrote: »

The site is fine from where I'm posting. Posts back to about 2004 are available.

The problem I think is stuff from August on is missing. Check the dates. there's a bunch of threads on the front pag dating from 10-08-11 or before.

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#25 22-12-2011 7:36pm

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don'taskaboutbackups.com

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#26 22-12-2011 7:38pm

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I'm intrigued by this. IT disasters are almost as exciting as natural ones. Maybe even more so because noone actually dies

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#27 22-12-2011 8:01pm

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ah, it's like being back at my old office developer says something's backed up..... things turn to ****... ooops it turns out i backed up everything but that! ahhhhh.

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#28 22-12-2011 8:12pm

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He says they were making nightly backup. Were these overwriting each other. Poor organisation & even poorer hosting.
An upgrade to vB 4 should really be done to a test location first before taking down the live site.

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#29 22-12-2011 9:23pm

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Be thankful for boards, kids. Steady as a rock these days. Do they even go down for the 3am backup anymore, or just run it on one machine?

<showing my IT ignorance here>

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#30 22-12-2011 9:46pm

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RoundyMooney wrote: »

Do they even go down for the 3am backup anymore, or just run it on one machine?

Havn't noticted.
I'd be well tucked up by then..:o

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#31 22-12-2011 9:52pm

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My friend beside me has the ability to restore the entire missing content.. I'm sitting here reading through posts on the website from the last few weeks (obviously easy) but it's him who can convert all this back into a MySQL database and get all the posts back in order.

Has no one else actually spotted how to do it?

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#32 22-12-2011 10:00pm

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RoundyMooney wrote: »

Be thankful for boards, kids. Steady as a rock these days. Do they even go down for the 3am backup anymore, or just run it on one machine?

<showing my IT ignorance here>

Ah yes, the old 3AM club in tCN, and the silly competition where you had to get the last post in before the shutdown and a bonus for getting the first one when it came back up!

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#33 23-12-2011 11:19am

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Dr.Silly wrote: »

Actually, I do .. difference is I'm good at what I do

Fair play to you. I never accused you of being good/bad @ your job, whatever that is.

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#34 23-12-2011 12:12pm

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Good for savings and deposit options which was always kept up to date but the combination of a site wide ban on property prices and the fill up yer boots skit means I never visit.

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#35 23-12-2011 1:40pm

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Hey slut! How's yer Mr Buuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss?

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#36 23-12-2011 1:42pm

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Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.

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#37 23-12-2011 2:14pm

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From

http://www.globalgold.co.uk/vbulletin-hosting/

When it comes to high-performance forum hosting
no other host can keep pace with our knowledge,
expertise, or support. Probably the best you can get.

They must be drinking too much Carlsberg.

Also from the same page

Some very important forums host with GlobalGold including Playfish, Audi, Alzheimers and many more.

Alzheimers ??? Must have mixed up their backups with AskAboutMoney

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#38 24-12-2011 11:14am

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It appears they got it restored.

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#39 24-12-2011 11:25am

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Yeah OPs link brings you to a post about booking tickets.

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#40 24-12-2011 11:33am

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KoolKid wrote: »

It appears they got it restored.

I was wondering was there some inside joke about booking seats on Italian trains that I wasn't getting.

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#41 24-12-2011 1:27pm

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I feel more sorry for the people in negative equity given advice by posters on that site during the boom years

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#42 24-12-2011 2:25pm

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Tech3 wrote: »

I feel more sorry for the people in negative equity given advice by posters on that site during the boom years

+1

It was a real tigers den, all assuming that the growth of the previous couple of years would continue indefinitely and advising all those looking to buy to "fill their boots".

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#43 24-12-2011 7:29pm

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I suppose discussion of backups was also banned as it could cause negative sentiment? Can't say I'm sorry for them at all.

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#44 11-01-2012 5:52pm

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Gone again

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#45 11-01-2012 5:59pm

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Down because they were moving hosts.
Horse and gate come to mind.

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#46 09-02-2012 3:15pm

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Now when you surf to askaboutmoney.com you get a large message begging for donations. Pity Brendan banned about 90% of his members for made up egotistical reasons. I have a feeling thats why he now has to beg for donations.

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#47 09-02-2012 3:21pm

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I got banned from AAM for abusive language, fair enough you say, but it was because my username had 'feck' in it.

I'd been a member for 2 years at that stage....

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#48 09-02-2012 3:24pm

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psychward wrote: »

Now when you surf to askaboutmoney.com you get a large message begging for donations. Pity Brendan banned about 90% of his members for made up egotistical reasons. I have a feeling thats why he now has to beg for donations.

Maybe he should empty some of those bank shares out of his boots.

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#49 09-02-2012 4:22pm

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psychward wrote: »

Now when you surf to askaboutmoney.com you get a large message begging for donations. Pity Brendan banned about 90% of his members for made up egotistical reasons. I have a feeling thats why he now has to beg for donations.

Maybe they should change it to askformoney.com

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