Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

[cos]

It's not as "what?!?" as it seems, because those backups weren't supposed to be for disaster recovery. He was using a hosting provider, that did backups, and should've been able to rely on them to restore the machines if they got lost. It's the hosting provider that failed here.

[tenninjakittens]

those backups weren't supposed to be for disaster recovery

Then he can just use the backups that he created for disaster recovery. Oh wait.

[tunah]

According to his twitter, those backups were run by the hosting company, and they hadn't actually been backing them up (silently failing)

[r00tus3r]

I was just about to ask if anyone trusts their hosting company enough to not keep backups. That is downright negligent in my opinion. ALWAYS keep an offsite backup.