LxLabs, HyperVM suffers tragedy

• • "The discovery of 24 security vulnerabilities may have contributed to the death of the chief of LxLabs. A flaw in the companies HyperVM software allowed data on 100,000 sites, all hosted by VAserv, to be destroyed. The HyperVM solution is popular with cheap web hosting services and the attacks are easy to reproduce, which could lead to further incidents."

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Backups, Backups & More Backups!!

My advice to everyone out there is to always have backups, backups & more backups as often as backing up right away if possible.

Recently had backed up my documents folder to a portable hard drive (months of recent work) then all of a sudden I had a HD failure on the main box, okay so I have everything backed up to the portable hard drive 😉 ……..I am good SO I THOUGHT!!

Then the freaking portable HD gave out on me 😦 not good at all.

Hitachi DeskStar 250 gb SATA drive was in the main box that failed (Home Built System)I purchased new.

Maxtor 300gb portable hard drive that gave out

So I was down to one last portable HD with about 80% of my work 😐 and that I went out and bought another portable HD and got backups of my backups once again.

The Western Digital portable 200gb HD I have that has most of my work (had this HD the longest of all)

The recently purchased Maxtor 500gb portable HD (keep fingers crossed)

So in summary out of all this as I have always you should practice is having backups of your backups of course all those family pics, mp3’s & various other files can prove to be very important when you no longer have access to them. As for the pics lose those and see what happens BTW (I will take credit for this idea) anytime you have photos as a alternative backup use an online site such as flickr, ofoto, etc.,) that is an easy free way to store your photos online and allow others to view them. I personally use ofoto and order photos or various other photo collages from them from time to time prices are reasonable but they have given me to date over the past 3 years over 50gb of pic storage all at the cost of …..FREE 🙂

Lastly in case, for those of us that don’t read the instructions portable hard drives are not meant to be "portable" so to speak. Funny that the HD that has lastest me the longest the WD has this as part of the disclaimer online that the drive is not meant to be moved around often. I often carry my portable with me everywhere I go 🙂 bad habit I know but it gives me piece of mind until it goes out.

So yes that was my past few weeks of dealing with data disasters :).