Magazine loses files when backup fails

DysenteryInTheRanks writes: Business 2.0, the Time Inc.-owned tech/business magazine that publishes the "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" each year, lost much of the content from its June issue when a server crashed — and the never-tested "backup server" also failed, apparently due to a software issue. There was only one week left before the monthly magazine was to be published. Luckily the text of the articles had been emailed to lawyers and was recovered. Everything had to be laid out again and the graphics recreated. Editors have since followed the advice they once published in their own magazine and begun using an off-site backup server that mirrors every half hour.