Industry does not secure data

I age myself to say Brian Livingston has been around a long time. Here's Livingston's explanation to his subscribers, sad I think, about crash recovery.

Livingston fittingly titles it Public Deprived:

Thankfully, we're a bit fanatical about backups here. Not only does our server make a nightly backup, which is stored deep beneath a mountain somewhere. It also communicates in real-time with a replication server that we keep far away from the Web server.

As it was programmed to do, our replication server had preserved every single transaction that had been committed to our database. That included a subscription by some lucky person just seconds before the 12:10 a.m. disk crash.

To get our server back to normal, all we had to do was swap in three spare drives (yes, we had them on hand), reinstall our operating system and code, and repopulate our database from the replication machine.

Believe me, all this takes more than 60 minutes. Several WS staffers worked day and night Oct. 13 and 14 to restore our server and bring you today's articles. We're ba-a-a-ck!

Being down for 48 hours was a living hell,

Thirty years I laugh and laugh. Tears included.

I hereby declare the PC industry failed at its beginning and fails now to give a shit about our data. Where would we find several workers to recover our lost data? Most of us remain in living hell because after many years there's similar and poor solutions protecting our data.