JournalSpace forced to close

Just another reason to keep that IT guy happy. JournalSpace a smaller blogging site was forced to close up shop after a recent data loss. During the 6 year period the company never had an actual backup in place other than their mirror RAID which they thought would protect their 14,000 user’s data. Wrong! The culprit began sabotaging the data for 6 months and when the staff went to restore the data on the “backup” mirror drive they discovered the data had been overwritten and nothing was recoverable. It’s mind boggling that a single employee could be the downfall of a company. If you’ve got a mirror RAID and expect it to protect your data, you should probably make a backup right now. It certainly wouldn’t hurt.