https://www.justincarmony.com/tags/data-loss/ Recent content in Data Loss on Justin Carmony Hugo en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:04:48 +0000 https://www.justincarmony.com/2009/04/19/data-backups-there-are-no-excuses/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:04:48 +0000 https://www.justincarmony.com/2009/04/19/data-backups-there-are-no-excuses/ <p>Today I just had the terrible experience of having a database lose data, need to restore, only to not have a recent backup. If you haven&rsquo;t had this experience before, please, take this serious. My wife was home for lunch as it happened, and she watched as the blood drained from my face. It only took a few seconds for the loss to happen, and immediately I knew exactly what the repercussions where. The immediate second thought that passes through your brain is &ldquo;Where are my backups?&rdquo; That is when I realized I didn&rsquo;t have my nightly backups set up on this server. I quickly checked the file date on the last known backup I had.</p>