{"id":317,"date":"2005-03-23T00:28:21","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T05:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=317"},"modified":"2005-03-22T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2005-03-22T21:12:08","slug":"backup-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Backup, what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a real top notch team running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibackups.net\/\">ibackups.net<\/a> it seems.  As of yesterday, the <a href=\"\/images\/ibackup-net.jpg\">site was down showing this message<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As most of you are aware, iBackups is down due to issues beyond our control. We are sorry but there is nothing we can do at this time to resolve this.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we cannot stress the seriousness of our terms regarding our refund policy to our customers. Filing a chargeback or dispute with your bank will result in legal action against you. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let&#8217;s recap: they&#8217;re down, and if you were a client of theirs, then you&#8217;re screwed. If you try to unscrew yourself, they&#8217;ll SUE YA!  Niiice.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is that in spite of their name, the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20031202150041\/www.ibackups.net\/index.php?main=company&#038;sub=about\">web archive<\/a> seems to indicate that they don&#8217;t have very much at all do to with backups.  Instead, the site seems to be more a place for cut rate software downloads, perhaps masquerading as software &#8220;backups&#8221; that one can download if they &#8220;lose&#8221; their &#8220;originals.&#8221;  The <a href=\"http:\/\/216.109.117.135\/search\/cache?p=ibackups.net&#038;ei=UTF-8&#038;fl=0&#038;vst=0&#038;vs=www.ibackups.net&#038;u=www.ibackups.net\/index.php%3Fmain%3Dpolicies%26sub%3Dtermsofuse&#038;d=14EDA07E39&#038;icp=1&#038;.intl=us\">Yahoo cache of the site&#8217;s TOS<\/a> also seems to back this up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A software sales website is offline.  Nonetheless, they expect customers to pay up anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}