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Nokia Contacts on Ovi fails: three weeks data lost
SlashGear —
... Nokia’s Contacts on Ovi database has failed, leaving users without any of the updated information they made since January 23rd. The failure, which was brought about after cooling in the hosting center broke down, proved irretrievable, and as such the Contacts team was forced to restore it from the most recent backup from an earlier center, with data approximately three weeks old. As a result, any profile details, images or friendships set up since that date are no longer available. ...
Contacts on OVI pierde 3 semanas de datos
Celularis —
... Me sorprendió el post en el blog de Nokia Beta Labs que basicamente es un gran pedido de perdón (miren la foto del perrito que pusieron!) y termina tratando de convencer a los usuarios de “que les den otra oportunidad de ofrecerles un buen servicio”. ...
Nokia Ovi crash results in three weeks of lost user data
Engadget —
... There's definite risks to hosting all your personal data in the cloud, and users of Nokia's Contacts on Ovi service just got a taste of the dark side: a database crash yesterday erased all data entered since January 23rd, when the service superceded Nokia Chat. ...
Server Crash Deletes 3 Weeks' Worth of Nokia User Data
Phone Scoop - Latest News —
... servers. The servers in question housed user data from Nokia's Share on Ovi service including contact information, photos and other data that had been synced from end-user handsets to Ovi. Despite Nokia's attempts to repair the problem, the most recent back-up it could restore was dated Jan. 23. Anything uploaded or synced between Jan. 23 and Feb. 9 was completely lost. Nokia apologized for the problem and asked users to give it a second chance. more info at RCR Wireless News more info at Nokia Beta Labs Comment on this news item Related news: RIM Bringing ...
Palm Pre users suffer cloud computing data loss
AppleInsider —
... of the data after Sun and Oracle experts stepped in to help recover the information, but the salvaged data took over a month to restore because the company didn't have adequate backups. Earlier this year, Nokia also experienced a cloud services failure with Ovi , its mobile online service then operating in a public beta, after a server accident resulted in database problems. Despite having "regular backups," the company said "we were not able to set it right" and had to revert to an older database performed three weeks earlier at its previous hosting center. "Were sorry ...
