Talk about scary situations . . . .
I was looking around at my server’s file structures today and noticed something funny - my hard drive usage had run up to 81% somehow. Not thinking too much about it, I reminded myself to check back again later to see if something was going on. An hour later, my drive was 84% full. 2 Hours later - 88% full. 3 hours later 93% full.
WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE!
Turns out a temporary backup somehow went awry, and kept growing in size. When all was said and done, this file had approached almost 25GB!
Good thing we caught it and fixed the situation. That could have caused some MAJOR problems…..
Anyone else ever have something like this happen?
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12 Responses
Entertainment
January 17th, 2008 at 1:44 am
1Not thinking too much about it, I reminded myself to check back again later to see if something was going on.
debt consolidation free
January 17th, 2008 at 1:46 am
2Good thing we caught it and fixed the situation.
Bingo Online
January 17th, 2008 at 8:10 am
3My lousy web hosting company back then was pretty stupid..
they managed to fry their hard drive and their backup drive..
don’t know whether they were lying or not.. but i moved.. quickly..
Jule K.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am
4My hosting company lost my entire blog! Well, sort of: three days after creating it they got hacked and hadn’t done a backup of it - they do them weekly??? But I only lost two posts - lol.
Online Money
January 31st, 2008 at 12:05 am
5I have to increase my bandwidth as my traffic is increased almost doubled. When i saw the site is not opening i had quickly increased my bandwidth a part from that no major problems. Any way nice blog Keep it UP
Snes
February 4th, 2008 at 4:37 am
6nice post. I wish my hosting was easy to set up and administer like working my TV.
Snes
February 4th, 2008 at 5:09 am
7Had a simular problem but it has now been sorted
0% interest
February 11th, 2008 at 12:54 am
8if that was me, i would’ve had a panic attack.
Babystrampler
February 13th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
9Hello I had also the same problem. But now it is ok. puh .-)
The Server Backup from Hell
February 28th, 2008 at 6:02 am
10[…] [Technorati] Tag results for technology wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Talk about scary situations . . . . I was looking around at my server’s file structures today and noticed something funny - my hard drive usage had run up to 81% somehow. Not thinking too much about it, I reminded myself to check back again later to see if something was going on. An hour later, my drive was 84% full. 2 Hours later - 88% full. 3 hours later 93% full. WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE! Turns out a temporary backup somehow went awry, and kept growing in size. When all was said and done, […]
Justin
March 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
11I had this happen once. The /var partition that had mySQL data on it got full. When that happens mySQL just wigs out and dies.. All databases were lost! As a result I keep way better backups. This was several years ago. Live and learn I say.
Nitis
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:31 am
12if that was me, i would’ve had a panic attack.
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