Server Failure Destroys Sidekick Users' Backup Data 304
Expanding on the T-Mobile data loss mentioned in an update to an earlier story, reader stigmato writes "T-Mobile's popular Sidekick brand of devices and their users are facing a data loss crisis. According to the T-Mobile community forums, Microsoft/Danger has suffered a catastrophic server failure that has resulted in the loss of all personal data not stored on the phones. They are advising users not to turn off their phones, reset them or let the batteries die in them for fear of losing what data remains on the devices. Microsoft/Danger has stated that they cannot recover the data but are still trying. Already people are clamoring for a lawsuit. Should we continue to trust cloud computing content providers with our personal information? Perhaps they should have used ZFS or btrfs for their servers."
As if millions... (Score:5, Funny)
homemade cell phone porn videos cried out and then were silenced.
Sidekick (Score:5, Funny)
shit, is that TSR still hanging around? goodness!
If the above means anything to you, "apt-get install joe mc" will make you smile as well.
Microsoft/Danger (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft was testing the US gov edition (Score:5, Funny)
The congress critters have learned a lot from the "terrible mistake" of email backups.
From cute page boys to Iran contra, MS can market this as a feature.
Re:A server failure? (Score:5, Funny)
A server failure caused all of the data to be lost?
Maybe it was the server failure . . . maybe they only had one . . . ?
Everybody needs a DRP (Score:1, Funny)
http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/dilbert_disaster_recovery_plan.jpg
Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" (Score:5, Funny)
There are plausible reports as to how this happened here [hiptop3.com].
tl;dr - They tried upgrading their SAN without making a backup first, and the upgrade somehow hosed the entire SAN.
Bad brand (Score:2, Funny)
It's like being kicked in the side.
T-Mobile Press Release (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" (Score:4, Funny)
The clue is in the name of the software (Score:2, Funny)
Danger? (Score:1, Funny)
Why trust something that's named "Danger" to begin with?
What do you expect with a name like (Score:2, Funny)
Yesterday... all those backups seemed a waste... (Score:5, Funny)
Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday,
Need for backup seemed so far away.
Seemed my data were all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.
Anonymous
Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" (Score:3, Funny)
Something tells me you have grey hair and wrinkles. And I say that in a good way.
Re:A server failure? (Score:4, Funny)
LoB
Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" (Score:5, Funny)
It's not the gray hair (or what is left of it!), and those aren't wrinkles. They're laugh lines from the terrific amusement when some youngster ignores the hard-won lessons of the last millennium, especially when they have to call me or someone like me to clean up the mess. The laugh lines are especially deep from when I collected a paper trail to show where their supervisor ignored my written warnings about the danger: those are used with caution, but can be very, very handy.
Re:It is an ancient story, endlessly repeated (Score:5, Funny)
Just don't drop the SOAP.
Re:You assume Danger used a MSFT platform (Score:3, Funny)
He's modded +1 Informative. I guess that's proof enough! :D
Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know where you hang out at night, but where I hang out people who call themselves things like "webmistressrachel" are not men.
Like I said, your mileage may vary..
Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" (Score:1, Funny)
>To recover the application all they had to do was backup a few gig of config and binaries, and restart slurping data from upstream again. Viola - backup stripped down to nothing
I'm interested in learning more about how a string instrument factored into your solution.