The importance of testing your website backup

You have probably come across http://ma.gnolia.com/ in the past, a popular social bookmarking web site which has been around for years.

In early 2009, the site went down, and is now only accessible through invitation (back to beta version!)

What hapened behind the scene?

Their database backup failed... and they lost all their data.

Hang on , you would think that they run daily backup, test it and ensure that they can deploy a back-up version of the site quickly.

Well, it turns out that they overlooked this elementary side of the business, and they actually lost everything.

Check out the video here, where the owner talks honestly and in a very transparant way about the whole exprience..