I woke up this past Friday (the 13th) to a DM on Twitter saying that Continuations was down. I immediately tried to open the site on my phone and was greeted by an ominous:

At first I figured that maybe Tumblr was down. A quick check of other Tumblrs revealed that not to be the case. At this point a somewhat queasy feeling started to set in. After a quick shower I went to my laptop and tried to log into my account only to see a terrifying sight:

At this point I was in a full blown state of panic. I have been writing here for a long time and my last full backup of Continuations was several years old!

Thankfully I know several people connected to Tumblr and they kindly offered to help. Continuations was fully restored within a couple of hours, but those were some scary hours in which I kicked myself for not following the advice that I give every USV portfolio company, which is to make sure to backup of all their data.

I have since learned that Tumblr does an excellent job keeping data around making it easy for them to restore things after an accidental deletion (apparently some automated bot deletion system had malfunctioned and removed Continuations). Still, I am feeling much better now that I have a once again current backup of Continuations.

This experience has made me think about other cloud services that I use extensively such as Google and Dropbox. I am now wondering if I should back these up to each other for increased redundancy. I am curious to hear from anyone who does that as to why and how they have set it up.