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A Reminder to Backup...

According to this ars thread, it appears MacUpdate has suffered a hard drive failure.


    MacUpdate's hard drive took a dive this morning and will no longer boot. This has caused unexpected down time for the MacUpdate site.

    We are going to attempt to make the drive a secondary drive in the machine and copy the data over. If this doesn't work, we are in a very bad position, as the MacUpdate site and database are not backed up outside of this drive.

    Keep us in your prayers if you would please.,

MacUpdate.com provides listings for Mac Applications -- similar to VersionTracker.com.

Update: MacUpdate.com appears to be back up.

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