Hard Drive Failure & Backup Restoration

God damn it. Another server failure. I dunno how many time this server failed me already. Already in the mode to switch to a different provider. Was about to check my yesterday’s email when I got this notice. Damn it. All my emails from Monday until today morning all gone.

Already wrote an email to support dept to see if there is any backup newer than 7 Oct (sunday) available for my server. Hopefully I can restore all my emails. I wouldn’t mine the web pages because they depend on the database for content feed, not the web files itself. But my email… Gah. Some more I am in the middle of looking for sponsorship for my Uni event.

Email from my webserver provider:
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It has come to our attention that the server were not responding today morning (11 Oct 2007)

The reason is due to corrupted file systems (possibly caused by hard drive failure)
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We have restored the following to all accounts:
1. All web files & e-mails data were restored to 7 Oct 2007 (Sunday)
2. All database were restored to the latest 11 Oct 2007 (Thursday)
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The reason we did not fully restore latest files & e-mails were because some backup dates were inconsistent. Some of the account has latest backup on 11 Oct 2007 while some account has the last backup date between 7 Oct 2007 to 10 Oct 2007

NOTE: If you wish to retrieve any files you have uploaded between 8 Oct 2007 to 11 Oct 2007, please write us back an e-mail to to check further on your backup dates.

We wish to inform you that these measures taken above are our very best efforts to restore your data to the latest date possible, as quickly as possible.

The server is now online 1:20PM (Thursday) +8GMT Malaysia

Thank you
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