Is it possible to restore a single file or directory from a backup?
I was recently in the same situation, it actually happened a little bit before Sep 4 and so I didn't have the benefit of looking at this thread. But I tried it anyway, just to see how Slicehost would handle it. I allocated a new slice sourced from the previous night's backup of my production slice. I scp'd my lost files back over to the production slice and then told Slicehost to delete the new slice. It took about 20 minutes to wait for the new slice to allocate, 10 minutes to retrieve my files, and 10 seconds to deallocate the new slice. Cost to me: 66 cents.
I don't know what these guys are thinking. With customer-friendly policies like these, how will they ever have a successful IPO?
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