As far as I can tell Morris County data was set back to around October 2015. Unfortunately
this notification happened at the same time that I had a computer crash on my home
network, so while I do have backups of all county data it will take me a bit to restore
everything to current time.
Somerset County appears to be the same, being set back to around the fall of 2015.
Bringing my counties up to date is now one of my priorities.
Brianne
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FYI
Denise
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From: Jim <nyclvr2012(a)gmail.com>
Date: March 28, 2016 at 3:31:08 PM EDT
To: Denise Wells <scindianagenweb(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Did you see this?
Ancestry.com RootsWeb Data Loss: Future Proofing Your Genealogy Data
Posted on 28 March 2016 by Thomas MacEntee
In case you haven’t heard, with the recent RootsWeb website outage a few weeks
ago,Ancestry.com has just communicated to its RootsWeb users the following email about
possible data loss:
As you may know, the RootsWeb site was recently unavailable as the result of a hardware
failure in our datacenter. Our development and web operations teams worked diligently and
carefully to address the issues, and as a result, the site is now available again.
Regretfully, despite their best efforts, our teams were not able to retrieve all of the
data associated with the site. Specifically, we were unable to retrieve content from
FreePages added after the summer of 2015. We understand these pages are important to you
and are very sorry that we are not able to recover the data that was lost as a result of
the hardware failure. Going forward, we are adding additional technical resources to
support the site and ensure such an issue does not occur again.
If you have a backup of your own please upload it to the site so that you have the most
current version of your pages.
If you have any concerns, please contact our Member Services through our support form.
What You Can Do Right Now
So, if you maintain a RootsWeb “free page” here is what you should do right now:
First, check and see if you have any data loss since the middle of 2015.
Second, if you do, see if you have any backup copy saved on your computer and then update
your RootsWeb page.
Third, if you do not have a backup, consider using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
(
https://archive.org/web/) to view archived pages. Note: not all RootsWeb pages will be
archived on the Wayback Machine.
Fourth, also consider using the Google Cache view of your page and copy and paste data
from that version of your RootsWeb page.
How You Can Prevent Future Data Loss
Backing up your data is your responsibility and you should NEVER count on a website or
vendor to always backup any data you upload to their site. In fact, this is likely spelled
out in the Terms of Service at
Ancestry.com and other sites.
I ALWAYS compose my content in an electronic document on my own computer (Microsoft Word,
etc.) BEFORE I upload it as a blog post, or a web page. This is a good habit to get into.
And also, remember to create backup copies of the data on your computer.
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