Board Security

[Gotholic]

At a message board I was at there was a recent hacker attack against the server where the forums were hosted. And some back up copies were lost and so the board took a time warp back to April of this year. So they had to add additional security and such.

I was wondering if this board has some kind of backup system?

 

[Professur]

We're gifted with several redundant backup systems.

 

[Spirit]

I have a great back up system

:evillaugh:

 

[Gato_Solo]

I have a great back up system

:evillaugh:

I'll need pictures...with diagrams and arrows on the back of each one.

All backup systems should be shown...in proper usage...

 

[Spirit]

Well, these pictures don't need diagrams.. they speak for themselves....

 

[A.B.Normal]

So was the outage due to an attack?

 

[Luis G]

Well, these pictures don't need diagrams.. they speak for themselves....

I'm still waiting for some pictures

 

[samcurry]

Yes we get backed up pretty regularly. (hehe)
We also back the forums up too.

 

[Professur]

So was the outage due to an attack?

Hitting all of Sam's three sites simultaneously is unlikely. Probably a server reset. Likely they were installing a service pack.

 

[A.B.Normal]

The timing of the outage and having seen this thread earlier made me wonder if Gotholic was followed

 

[samcurry]

nah from what ive seen so far its phpbb boards with a front end on the that are being hit.

 

[Spirit]

I'm still waiting for some pictures

oh yaaaa.........

 

[fury]

It gets backed up daily and as far as I know, kept for a week by the host. Furthermore, it gets backed up and saved off-site manually by me whenever I dive in to upgrade the software. I have a couple dedicated servers with 80 gig hard drives in em, one of these keeps all the pre-upgrade backups I download.