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From: Robert Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:40 PM
To: Aschwin Wesselius
Cc: Richard Heyes; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] An appeal to your better nature

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:07 +0200, Aschwin Wesselius wrote:
> Richard Heyes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Seems my 1and1 server has finally gone kaput taking my website with
> > it, and in the tradition of all good IT professionals, I have no
> > backups. :( So this is an appeal to you to ask if you have downloaded
> > anything from phpguru.org at all, could you please send it to me so I
> > can try to rebuild my site.
> >
> > A big thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> What does Google cache has? And the Wayback Machine
> (http://www.archive.org/)? Coral Cache?
>
> Bummer dude, but you've got to learn it once the hard time. On the other
> hand, good backup solutions just cost a lot.

Not to stick a finger in Richard's bleeding wound... but a 1TB
hard-drive is less than $200 CAD. And you can get 6GB of Google mail for
free if you're really feeling the pinch. 8GB USB thumb drives are around
$30 CAD, and DVD blanks are like 25 cents a piece. I don't see the cost
issue.

Cheers,
Rob.
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OMG! Richard, so sorry to hear this. I have been like that, not having a
backup at all. Now I have done my masterpiece about a year ago, and have it
on backup on DVD at 4 different locations as well as 3 webservers, 1 USB
stick and, as Rob pointed out, in my Gmail account.

I know it's hard and can cost you quite a sum if you don't have backups at
all (thank God my customers always sign a contract where it says that data
backup is their responsibility, not mine). Once, it cost me 7.000 Euros :o(

Sorry to say that I have never downloaded from your site, just wanted to
give you a little pad on the shoulder. Sometimes it's not too bad to start
from sratch (by god, i have done it many times until I learned about data
backup *lol*)

Cheers mate! Don't worry, things could be worse!

Chris



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