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1. Art9681 · 1789594293 · focus · HN ↗

   No disaster recovery plan? No offsite backups? Someone failed to applied the most basic principles that have existed for decades.

   1. rbanffy · 1789594577 · focus · HN ↗

      The more dramatic contingency you have to plan for, the more expensive the plan gets.

      Earlier this week I mentioned that if we lose enough data centres to bring our operation down, the first items in the to-do list becomes securing weapons, vehicles and fuel.

      1. jiggawatts · 1789596516 · focus · HN ↗

         I had the same discussion with a manager about the backups of financial contracts for cleaning school facilities.

         He just couldn't get past the notion that if the six copies in four buildings across two states were all simultaneously physically destroyed, then most likely there are also no more schools left standing, and hence the contracts to clean them are null and void. Also, payment is now in booze and ammunition, not dollars.

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