Tech mag crashes after failing to back-up

A TECH magazine which often lectures its readers on the merits of backing things up crashed after er failing to back anything up.

Business 2.0, which once likened backups to flossing, seems to have been caught with a bit of rotting meat between the molars.

The magazine's editorial system crashed and all the work that been done for its June edition was lost. The back-up server had not done its job and was broken.

Editor Josh Quittner said that if the crash had happened a week later, the magazine would have been in trouble.

It turned out that most of the copy had been sent off to lawyers to snuffle around to check for defamation and the magazine had not been completely laid out. Page layouts were history and had to be redone.

Apparently no one had bothered to check if the back-up server was working. In fact its software was out-of-date and dysfunctional.

Funny recently the outfit penned a yarn about the merits of off-site back-up as being a 'usual precaution' in businesses these days. Business 2.0 is famous for running its "101 Dumbest Moments in Business."

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