[wp-hackers] [Pretty OT]May I be the first to console Owen...

[Doug Stewart]

On 9/15/06, Brian Layman <Brian at thecodecave.com> wrote:
> Ooo - ouch... Sorry man...  I've yet to hear of a chance were anyone's
> raid system saved them from a faulty drive.  I'm sure it happens.  Cool
> hot swappable technology or not, I've heard of four raid systems going
> bad - counting yours - and each time the whole array had to be rebuilt
> from external backups.  Other than for speed benefits, I'd feel safer
> with a good backup regimen.
>
> For recent posts, if you were setup to send complete articles, you'd
> probably be better asking your rss subscribers to send you what they've
> got - that assumes you don't have an RSS feed on your new server that
> might wipe out their data.  Archive.org is a year old.
>

That's not a bad thought.

Owen, I think my Liferea cache has your 100 most recent posts - don't
think it cached images, unfortunately, but there's a fair chance that
I could help out in recovering a bit of the HTML side of your content.

-Doug