Here is a geeky post that, for once, might be pertinent to more than two or three readers. Read on if:
- You have a website.
- This website uses a database (most blog platforms, for example, do).
- You would really hate to lose all your data in an accident.
It think there is no need to be an übergeek to satisfy all three points above.
So the problem is about backups. Backups are a beautiful and easy thing, in theory. In practice, nobody, but the more anal retentive among us and those paid to do it, will ever go through the pain of manually backing up their data on more than episodic occasions. And since Murphy’s Law applies more than ever here, you can be sure your next server failure will happen the day before your next backup.
