Cache of the Month 4/03?

[Cheesehead Dave]

I’ve been updating my COTM Bookmark List and I noticed there was no COTM in April of 2003. Was there no voting that month for some reason or has it been accidentally excluded from the COTM page?

[Cheesehead Dave]

While you’re mulling that one over, take a quick gander at the spread of the all-time COTMs…

[greyhounder]

WOW! I’ve never used Google Earth before — is that how fabulous it is? I’ve really got to get my laptop connected to the internet….

On topic: it’s nice to see that the COTMs are fairl spread throughout the state (although a little more prevalent in the southeast.)

Bec

[Cheesehead Dave]

If you get around to upgrading to 10.4, you can run it, too!

[greyhounder]

yeah, if I want to shell out $125! But then again, GE is awfully impressive……

Bec

[Jeremy]

quote:

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Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave:
I’ve been updating my COTM Bookmark List and I noticed there was no COTM in April of 2003. Was there no voting that month for some reason or has it been accidentally excluded from the COTM page?

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A little WGA website history lesson. In late April 2003, a hard drive crash followed by a hacker intrusion forced the WGA website to be down for a couple days as Alan and I worked to rebuild the server. Unfortunately, the hard drive in another machine that contained the only backup of the WGA site also died before we could copy it back to the rebuilt server, meaning we had no recent backup (you should always have more than 1 backup!).

We lost 2 to 3 weeks worth of data, including COTM votes. Because of this data loss, we decided to not award a COTM for April 2003.

Currently, we do a daily backup of the data on the WGA site to another server, and then this other server gets backed up to tape daily… so we should never lose more than 24 hours worth of data as long as one of the two backups survives.

[Cheesehead Dave]

Ah… I remember that now. I didn’t realize that it had been that long ago already. How time flies…

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