Supporting Evidence

In an apparent effort to help me make yesterday’s point about the importance of on-site backup, Data Center Knowledge reports that two of Joyent’s online backup centers have been down for the last three days . If one of these is your only backup location than you are without access to your data for at least three days. Cross your fingers, knock on a hard drive (lightly) and hope you don’t need it.
As I said before, these things happen. Joyent got hit by a major bug. They have been upfront about the issue and are apparently making every effort to correct it. While such occurrences may be relatively rare, it is your responsibility to prepare for contingencies. The best way to do this is through a multi-site backup plan including an on-site location.

If you have a story of downtime at your online or off-site storage center let me know in the comments.