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myOtaku.com: Adam

Saturday, October 13, 2007

How spammers almost ruined theOtaku
It was odd, I was walking home the other day and a thought leapt in my head: "Maybe I should double check the backup system we have in place on theOtaku"

So I came home and emailed our ISP and said "Hello! Just wanted to check to see that all systems are going fine with regard to our backup infrastructure"

Then I hear the bad news: "Uh...it looks like nothing has been backed up since August 2006"

"What?! You mean if the site had crashed since August 2006 we would have lost everything?"

"Yes..."

So I went to immediate, urgent work on re-backing the site up. But a problem: Every time the backup would start, it would crash moments later

What was going on?

After investigating, we found the issue: spam!

Lots and lots and lots of spam. Spammers were overloading our server with junk/viagra/porn emails. Almost 30 GB of it (the size of 10 filled-the-brim gmail accounts)

The backup wasn't working because there was so many emails, hundreds of thousands of them that it couldn't keep up.

So we deleted it all and the backup is currently in progress and should be done by tomorrow.

What a day...
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