Last night right as we were wrapping Jupiter@Nite the jupiterbroadcasting.com server suddenly went off-line. The folks watching the live stream did not even notice, as long as they did not refresh their web browser. But what followed was an all-hands-on-deck effort to get services restored as quickly as possible. But as the hours ticked by, we started to panic – what if the site’s data was lost?
Tonight’s episode will cover our story, and give you tips to protect your self from data loss, security compromises, and human error!
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Tonight’s Show Notes & Download Below:
News:
Florida State College at Jacksonville latest to experience data loss
- 30,000 students at the various schools effected
- Software upgrade conducted between May 29 and June 2 made the data available, according to the news provider.
- A student reported the breach after finding personal information in Google search results.
- Pennsylvania State University has experienced three separate data breaches since December.
Thousands of Evernote users affected by data loss
- 6,000 of its users worldwide.
- For four days user data was simply being overwritten due to one of these systems not having a working failure routine.
- Only those who worked directly on their site lost data, application users data simply re-sync’ed after the outage was resolved.
Backup:
Backupify
- Backs up your social site accounts and data, like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket etc.
- Can backup Gmail / Hotmail
- Google Docs / Google Calendar / Zoho Office
- WordPress / Basecamp & more
Gotchas in our use:
- The WordPress backup (in beta) did not correctly get our WordPress files. But did get our SQL database.. The real money maker 🙂
- Windows, Mac & Linux support
- Free to sync to another CrashPlan computer
- Can perform a local backup, and the off-site backup to their service
- Free for personal use (some limits, see site for deets)
Monitor: