{"id":36,"date":"2008-03-04T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:20:46","slug":"ziff-davis-cto-loses-his-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/ziff-davis-cto-loses-his-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ziff Davis CTO Loses His Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cto-loses-data.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cto-loses-data.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cto-loses-data-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cto-loses-data-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cto-loses-data-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cto-loses-data-560x319.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Robyn Peterson isn&#8217;t a computer newbie\u2014after all, he&#8217;s in charge of technology for tech publisher Ziff Davis. So how did he lose his backup? Using a popular techie solution for online backup: FTP-ing his files to a web hosting provider. A perfectly reasonable, if somewhat tedious, solution. But as he found out, not such a secure option.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been cracking down on people using our services for backing up files,&#8221; Peterson was told by the provider. The Terms of Service said their &#8220;servers are not intended as a data backup or archiving service.&#8221; Don&#8217;t check the fine print? Or don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be enforced? OK sometimes&#8230; but when you really need that backup, you don&#8217;t want the response Peterson got when he asked whether his deleted files were backed up: &#8220;backups go back a maximum of only two weeks, and no backups are guaranteed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Peterson isn&#8217;t a computer newbie\u2014after all, he&#8217;s in charge of technology for tech publisher Ziff Davis. 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