Despite the best laid plans disaster does, occasionally, strike.  in in the IT world that means you need good backups of your systems since, occasionally, your systems will melt down.

As you may have noticed, ExistentialBlues.com recently underwent just such a catastrophe.  Power blackouts shouldn't tank servers connected to UPS, but somehow things that shouldn't happen, do.  And on an annoyingly frequent basis, I might add.

The backup was, hmmm, not good, being three months old, I'll have to do better next time.  But at least it worked, which is much better than I've seen on other ocassions but much more sophisticated operations than mine.
After a looong weekend of being unable to give the server the attention it needed in order to rise like a Phoenix from its ashes, it's back.  Let the e-mailing and web server continue!

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