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May 12th, 2009 |
Hello fellow WHTers!Welcome to the show.
If you follow me on Twitter @WebHostingTalk (I may have only mentioned it @SoftWareRevue), you know my online time has been spotty at best of late. But I'm nearly ready to rock and roll again! If you run Windows as your desktop, you've likely reformatted. I tend to do it once or twice a year. I've done it often enough that it's painless, and only takes a couple hours -- usually. Last Wednesday was set aside for reformatting. As I run a script to backup nightly to an external drive, I'm not concerned about having my data to restore. But being the cautious individual I am, I shut down all programs and grab a fresh image. I then copy that image to another external drive. I also use the Windows backup utility and grab a drive image (just in case something happens to the other data) and place it on one of the drives. I use the Windows Easy Transfer, burn to a USB drive, sigh the sigh of relief in knowing that I have 4 different backups in 3 different locations, and begin the re-image of my workstation. Reformatting complete, I hook up the external drive to copy over my files. I'm more accustomed to doing it manually like this. Problem is, I don't have the data I need. There are some files, but not the Application Data that makes restoration so much easier. Not to mention the emails that aren't there! That's OK, I have a couple other options. So I use the Windows Easy Transfer system, only to find out Windows says it can't read the disks. Now I'm getting a little nervous. But not so much, I have the Windows Backups to restore! I open the Backup and Restore window, click Restore Files, tell it I want to restore files from backup, and am beyond relieved when I see the backup version I want to restore as an option. I happily click Next to restore these files. I'm greeted with a screen that says there are no files by that name - yes, the same set it just showed me! I'm thinking, "This can't be happening". Let me reboot and dig around a bit more. After a day of rebooting and digging, I resolve to restore an older backup so that I would only have 6 months of work lost. All this sounds too eerily familiar, so I become determined to get my files. I ran recovery operations for the next 4 days. I won't bore you with all the gory details; just suffice it to say I have my data! On the hosting related side of things, New Advances in Continuous Data Protection Technology is one of the great sessions you can attend at this year's HostingCon August 10-12 in Washington DC. HostingCon is the largest gathering of hosted services professionals in the world. And this year's event is gearing up to be the biggest and best to date. Be sure to check back throughout the month as more sessions and keynotes are posted. Some of the featured sessions include a keynote on cloud computing featuring Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com. One of the brightest minds in SEO will also be a featured keynote speaker. We'll have delegates from the U.S. and EU covering data protection. There's another keynote on “build’ buy or colo” and much, much more. Of course there will be multiple parties, plenty of networking and world-class facilities. Register to attend HostingCon at https://www.hostingcon.com/2009/attend/register/. Early Bird specials end June 29th. So get in there now! I'm registered. I'll be there. Hope to see you too! What's this all got to do with our first featured thread? Nothing. It would have something to do if I had any questionable content though. Because our first featured thread asks how hosts should monitor their user’s content. Thanks for listening. And I'll see you on the forums. Dennis Johnson (aka SoftWareRevue) Got suggestions? Send me an
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