Error on reporting a thread - And Other Site Issues

[Steve R Jones]

Again: are there backups? I can't believe that no one is able to figure that out, or at least to tell us if the files are intact at the source or not.

Eduardo - Just for you... I asked one of the IT Guys I was working with today about backups.

QUESTION: Is it safe to say that the vBulletin sites get backed up? Often???

If the server the sites are on were to BLOW UP ? would we be back up and running in a few days?


ANSWER: Very fair question. We do nightly backups so if the absolute WORST were to happen, with our set up we could go from totally down to brand new version with yesterday's data in probably an hour.

[Eduardo-]

Thanks for answering!

ANSWER: Very fair question. We do nightly backups so if the absolute WORST were to happen, with our set up we could go from totally down to brand new version with yesterday's data in probably an hour.

That's a huge problem, because suppose that now the forum data was mangled, irrecoverable (fortunately that wasn't the case this time).
This issue happened like 10 days ago, so the only backup would have been from yesterday and would have had bad data already.
In other words: the last good backup would have been overwritten the day after the issue.

I think they should have another backup, from time to time, like once in a month.
Or even one per year, but not losing everything in such a situation.
The backup should cover the database + all files on disk, that are basically the attachments and I think some images.

If you don't mind I can make a program to backup the most important parts of the site.
I mean the things that are public, that program wouldn't need any privileged access to do that.