Server destroyed due to a power outage: can data be recovered?

every serious provider states such things during signup and you can choose what type of service you are going to use (backups or not, managed or not) it trust me shit will happen sooner or later so it is best for you to have everything backed up on another location.

You all probably remember disaster that happens to OVH few years back when one of their data centres went down in flames. Friend of mine had entire cluster in it (VMWare based with vSphere) with 100+ servers on it. If he hadn’t enabled and set disaster recovery to backup cluster in UK entire business would be jettisoned to outer space.

Edit: I personally use Contabo in many cases and they have (as VAS) options additional IPs, option to have managed service, monitoring, backups, etc.). I don’t use any of it because everything is in CI/CD and recovery time is fast if something happens.

DigitalOcean provides easy backup service right out of the gate and easy to scale with many types of servers. Just an option

dotc0m said:

Because their infrastructure is shit or they are too lazy to do disaster recovery. After working years in datacenters as an engineer, I can tell you data loss is extremely easy to prevent.

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May I ask what education/diploma you need to work in a datacenter as engineer? Just curious.

Sorry, but if they don't agree to collaborate with you, you are done.
No one seems to be blaming you and most are assuming that your datacenter did not have a good recovery plan, but mainly you were the main culprit of all this without backups to restore your data.
Last year, OVH datacenter burned and a lot of data was lost, including one of my full VPS. I cannot say that "luckily, I had a backup", because this is, by no means something luck, but a must-do.
Next time, you will have a backup for sure (I assume that this is why you were asking yesterday about how to do the right backups and I told you to use S3 Glacier)
Consider that most of us have learned in the past the hard way.
And it's kind of weird, because over the time, the past disasters start to fade away, and we tend to forget them, and relax the backup measures.
Hard discipline is needed to keep up the good job with backups afterward.

Got the same message from UndergroundPrivate.
Glad I have a backup... it's two weeks old but I'll manage

Eliot35 said:

Got the same message from UndergroundPrivate.
Glad I have a backup... it's two weeks old but I'll manage

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How do you create your backups?
Do you have a VPS or Dedicated server at UP?

1. Next time dont choose shitty hosting company.
2. Do backups to multiple places.

CryptoCapitalista and Eliot35​

they already gave you a new VPS?

@satyr85
I wouldn't say they are shit on the contrary, never had any issues since 6 years. Shit happens no one can predict and the backups are your responsibility,

@tiiim
They managed to recover my data, so everything is there and they gave me two months free for the issue.

Eliot35 said:

@satyr85
I wouldn't say they are shit on the contrary, never had any issues since 6 years. Shit happens no one can predict and the backups are your responsibility,

@tiiim
They managed to recover my data, so everything is there and they gave me two months free for the issue.

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Not **** company are hetzner, ovh, scaleway, digitalocean, aws, azure, vultr etc.

All small providers are... you never know untill something break. You want company that have experience with thousands baremetal servers, automated backups, snapshots etc - most small providers lack this and everything work untill disks fails and there is no backup/automated recovery solution.

Eliot35 said:

@satyr85
I wouldn't say they are shit on the contrary, never had any issues since 6 years. Shit happens no one can predict and the backups are your responsibility,

@tiiim
They managed to recover my data, so everything is there and they gave me two months free for the issue.

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Same here. Did you had a VPS or a Dedicated Server?

tiiim said:

CryptoCapitalista and Eliot35​

they already gave you a new VPS?

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Yes, they did yesterday.

Actually that is very bad on the hosting company part, means they had hosted that server in a very bad data center, with no UPS and redundant power supply, but for your question, actually the data can be recovered if it gets corrupted from the physical hard drive, there are many service providers and software providers that can do that, but it will cost extra and mostly quite much, so you might can consult with your service provider and ask them for a quote to send their physical hard drives to the recovery company for data restoration, it is surely possible but might be expensive, and only possible with the restore company having access to the physical hard drive (That was hosting your data).