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whooww... no tape backup? RAID-1?

JEFF OOI says: Just a live mirror. No budget for DAT back-up.

anyway glad you are back!

MySql tables can easily be backed up and downloaded as a gzip file or so.
Sam goes for the whole website, all directories can easily be backed up, and as a tarbal be downloaded (can be large of course)

Look at my site absoft-my.com/pondok/scripts.php

Jeff:

Okay understood.. :( anything i can do to help my email is in my profile

Albert:

I have no doubt that Jeff's archive is at least 100MB after gzipped.. not fun d/ling 100MB using steamx.. ;)

Cannot help in what needs to be done....I really don't understand this shit. Either it works or it does not!....But missed you la!! That is not very good is it.

But this new style I don't particularly like...not so good for my eyes. Can go bac to old style?

sometimes.. we need some changes...

Maybe this new change would be a good start for a new year?
hehe

Welcome back Jeff.. :)

Nutz an archive of the blog probably sits in MySql which is compressable by 80% or more, because most is ascii

As far as backing up your website, html/php files are also compressable by at least 70-80%, the problem that makes a backup giant is pictures.
There you have a choice backup without pictures (jpg/gif uncompressable), backup pictures seperately, or copy them on another server.
And a good provider also makes regular copies of all databases.......(mine does)

Jeff, you have commented on the popularity of your blog yet you failed to take measures to ensure a single hard disk failure didn't take it down. Interesting.

JEFF OOI says: The crash happened on the third day of Chinese New Year and I was away the following days -- and it's only fair that the volunteers who have been technically-supporting this blog deserve a break when I was having mine. So, nobody could make any decision on my behalf when I was away as that's the standing instruction. And, by no menas am I running a mission-critical operations like bank and electricity and water supplies.

As it's a festive season, I had also wanted to take several days off to unwind. And I was, in actual fact, contemplating to quit blogging for good after three solid years of toil and boil. I just wanted to enjoy my life -- like you guys -- and to hell with what goes wrong or goes right with this world. But then, I decided to blog on... for a while longer. I fully understand no one owes me a life. And neither do I to anyone.

Glad to see your site is back and running again.

Jeff, maybe you shall call it quits. I enjoyed your blog for quite some time but in the last 6-12 months it has been declining. For me you lost a lot of credibility with your 6 part attack against photomalaysia.

JEFF OOI says: Do you have the DELETE key on your keyboard? Hit it now and damn with with jeffooi.com!

I think the sql archive of jeffooi.com could easily exceed 50mb even after gzipped compression, which is what nutz stated earlier. Jeff, maybe you can try asking your network admin to set up a cron job that will make backup every midnight or so and turns it into a downloadable zip files.

JEFF OOI says: The data has a 3-year-old archive and run into double-digit Gigabytes. We will start working on the data integration after we come back to work on Feb 6, after the long CNY break. I have, incidentally, installed MovableType ver 3.2 to manage spams and commenter authentication more efficiently. The other architecture upgrade is to accommodate Podcasting with RSS feed, which I plan to launch this March. I am planning a WAP portal at the same time. Several people are involved in this project.

And apparently someone is still chewing the soour grapes over the photomalaysia issue. It's purely simple the way I see it, stop reading this blog if it hurts so much. ^_^ just ma 2 cents.

Working in cold feet inside the data center is not a good idea.

Reading Jeff blog using Firefox and it really looks real "BODAK", i.e. no proper graphical layout as compared to reading it using IE. Look like one of the 11 Bodak senior citizens...

Sure that there is no "SABO" work by someone - done giving a real hard shake on your hardisk ?

My server suffered once before and it is truly unforgetable, especially if it is a mission critical server.

Proper backup is worth all the money as hardisk is a machine which is full of mechanical moving parts and it will "die" eventually, just like human. "Choi choi choi, Tai Ka Li Si..." It is still CNY...

I thought your website had been taken down by the authority!

Welcome back!

Jeff,
I've tried to add your new jeffooi.com XML to my MY YAHOO page but failed.

The previous FEED stopped updating, readers who rely on XML feeds for new posts may not know that you have a new version of jeffooi.com.

Just FYI.