Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!

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On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On Friday 24 October 2008 19:42:57 BRM wrote:
>> They have a nice little site up at the www.gentoo-wiki.com site  
>> with all
>> the grewsome details of what is going on. So as he said, please go  
>> there
>> for the latest news.
>
> What I want to know is why there are no off-site backups.
>
> The site is on a machine that is rented from somebody else who hires  
> rack
> space from another party. This is just begging for a disaster, or  
> data being
> held hostage. Which is what happened according to the write up at that
> address. It's also a single point of failure.
>
> I have a response to that site owner and most here are not going to  
> like it:
>
> You are an idiot. This is an elementary error and you fully deserve  
> what has
> happened. Now stop whinging about how the big bad nasty terrible  
> person is
> treating you and actually take some responsibility for your own  
> mistakes.
>
> Wasn't this wiki also 0wned and defaced sometime in the last year?
>
> -- 
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>

The offsite backups, were actually on another server, on another link...
inside the same company. but yes, we are making the necessary provisions
this time around to suite the backups

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