This is exactly why we offer cross-upload to archive.org. Anyone concerned
about our
liquidity should make use of it. Of course, we never raised $12mm and won't be
going
anywhere.
Justin
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am certainly not talking about backups to any sort of DVD-type external
media performed by the hosting company.
And yes, we have the ability to subscribe and/or download.
What I am bringing up for discussion is in the genre of contingency
planning. And because we as a business have managed servers for over a
decade, it is something I am familiar with.
1) Some hosting companies (lower end pricing) do not provide back up
services. So, if one of their servers goes bad or someone's site programming
goes bad, they do not have a backup to pull from. You are basically starting
over from scratch. I think someone on this list had that problem a while
back??
If backup services *are* included in the hosting plan, then there is a
separate and duplicate set of data that can be used to restore the said site
files in question. If people are not keeping copies of the stuff they
upload, and a something goes wrong and there is no backup in place, then
there obviously is a problem.
2) If services like Revver that are the main repository for someone's media
files go away without warning, how will people be affected?
In our case, we have not been keeping local versions of all the various file
formats we upload for each daily episode. So if blip were to have a major
failure, we would be screwed for all episodes around #375 and forward. I'm
feeling irresponsible about this!
Our challenge is a bulk factor: having over 580 episodes, with an average of
2-4 file formats per episode.
So Charles, for you, my question was more to discuss this in the thinking
out loud mode.
I would hope that your servers are running frequent backups.
I would hope that if blip appeared to be heading south, we would be
contacted in advance to collect (aka download) our assets.
Right now we only have an FTP drop box, not 2-way FTP access, so this would
be a cumbersome manual task of downloading that could take days conceivably.
I don't know if there are other ideas??? I am not a server admin, just a
yellow belt who gets nervous about back ups now and then. And someone who is
happy to pay for value-added services. :-)
I choose not to think about the URL paths that would require updating. Long
live Blip!
Rox
On Feb 6, 2008 2:35 PM, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
why not just download all your videos that are on blip and toss them
on a HDD and/or DVDs?
if you are in the habit of downloading your own feed, you should be good
to go.
i dont think it would be a viable business for blip to send you drives
and discs.
sull
On Feb 6, 2008 6:11 PM, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL
PROTECTED]okekai%40gmail.com
wrote:
So time to think about backup plans. I for one am ready to pay extra for
file back up services. I am not on Revver, but I am on blip, and will
follow up with Mike if he doesn't chime in on this thread.
We backup all our original digital media, and have backup in place on
the
servers we manage for the first 350+ episodes. Since then, we have
hosted
at blip, and I am not aware of backup service there.
Aloha,
Rox
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