Microsoft/Danger lose Sidekick user data in server failure

Re:Microsoft/Danger lose Sidekick user data in server failure by joevandyk on Saturday October 10, 2009 @06:01PM (#873923)

Yikes. I assume they didn't have offsite backups, and some dude did a 'rm -rf *' or ran a 'delete from table cascade' command.

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Re:Microsoft/Danger lose Sidekick user data in server failure by jsz0 on Saturday October 10, 2009 @06:50PM (#873983)

Based on the wording of the statement it seems likely they had no usable backup solution at all. Offsite or otherwise. Even a 24 hour daily backup should have provided some data. Sounds like a classic case of neglect to me. They probably had a solution in place but didn't verify it was actually working.

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Re:Microsoft/Danger lose Sidekick user data in server failure by nkassis on Saturday October 10, 2009 @06:12PM (#873936)

I mean this could count for criminal negligence. I wish they would release more info on how the failure happened and why the backups aren't working.

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Re:Microsoft/Danger lose Sidekick user data in server failure by eli on Saturday October 10, 2009 @06:30PM (#873959)

Seems like a big assumption since we don't know any details. Perhaps a malicious sysadmin?

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Re:Microsoft/Danger lose Sidekick user data in server failure by 4buot on Saturday October 10, 2009 @08:11PM (#874065)

Apparently they botched an upgrade of their Oracle SAN.

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