{"id":719,"date":"2003-07-30T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T10:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-719.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"disaster-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/07\/30\/disaster-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunpig.com was off the air for about nine hours from 2am (GMT) last night.  Our site is histed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezpublishing.com\/\">EZPublishing<\/a>, whose are either resellers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colossus.net\/\">Colossus.net<\/a>, or they have their servers co-located at the same facility.  Whatever the case, Colossus.net had a fire at their server facility last night.  According to their recorded phone message, a power transformer exploded and set the cooling oil on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The fire has been put out now, they have a backup transformer\/generator in place, and their servers are starting to come back on-line again.  It doesn&#8217;t look like we&#8217;ve lost any data on the web server, but I&#8217;m not sure what has happened to our incoming mail in the time that the server was out.  If you&#8217;ve sent us anything in the last 12 hours, you might want to re-send it in case it got lost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Note to self:  <em>must finish off those backup scripts&#8230;.<\/em>  I&#8217;ve got a script that creates a backup of our server database every day, but I haven&#8217;t got round to making it do anything useful with the backup afterwards&#8230;like email it to me, or FTP it to a different location.  Fat lot of good <em>that<\/em> was going to be if the machine had gone up in flames.  Keeping your backups on the same machine as your original files&#8211;or even in the same <em>building<\/em>&#8211;is about as useful as the proverbial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plokta.com\/plokta\/issue23\/teapot.htm\">chocolate teapot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunpig.com was off the air for about nine hours from 2am (GMT) last night.  Our site is histed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezpublishing.com\/\">EZPublishing<\/a>, whose are either resellers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colossus.net\/\">Colossus.net<\/a>, or they have their servers co-located at the same facility.  Whatever the case, Colossus.net had a fire at their server facility last night.  According to their recorded phone message, a power transformer exploded and set the cooling oil on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The fire has been put out now, they have a backup transformer\/generator in place, and their servers are starting to come back on-line again.  It doesn&#8217;t look like we&#8217;ve lost any data on the web server, but I&#8217;m not sure what has happened to our incoming mail in the time that the server was out.  If you&#8217;ve sent us anything in the last 12 hours, you might want to re-send it in case it got lost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}