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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. chasd00 · 1789597023 · focus · HN ↗

         > to-do list becomes securing weapons, vehicles and fuel.

         I toured a datacenter once back in the early 2000s and they showed me 30 days of generator fuel storage. When i asked them why 30 days and not 35 they replied "we're such a major customer of both electricity and fuel that if we don't get electricity or fuel for 30 days there's way bigger problems than your website not being online" hah.

         1. SoftTalker · 1789602738 · focus · HN ↗

            You also need to understand whether the generator backup actually runs everything. Where I work it doesn't. Only "essential" systems get backup power.

            And if the data center is more than about 5 years old it almost certainly was not planned with adequate backup power to run racks of GPUs.

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