Archive for December, 2009

Server crash, some data lost

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Just a quick update: My server crashed this evening, which temporarily stopped the website and bar code lookups. While I was able to recover most of the data for the site and the upc/ean database, some was lost (posts, comments). The server that failed was also where my Git repository for the Torrent-fu project was stored. Thankfully I had the source code backed up elsewhere and didn’t lose any progress on development outside of not being able to work on it tonight.

Everything should be back to normal now.

Needless to say I’ll be implementing a more aggressive backup strategy so this, hopefully, doesn’t happen again.