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1. cube00 · 1790017251 · focus · HN ↗

   > When it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fiber had a break

   Pretty grim that a life critical system wasn't designed to report that the backup fibre was unserviceable until they attempted to switch over to it.

   I wonder how long it was down? Days, weeks, months?

   1. readthenotes1 · 1790017326 · focus · HN ↗

      A lot of people don't check their backups until they need to restore.

      A lot of people are incompetent.

      1. andrewjf · 1790019767 · focus · HN ↗

         Nobody wants backups as a feature. The feature is restore.

         1. bell-cot · 1790023511 · focus · HN ↗

            There are plenty of people who are happy to check off "Backups" boxes, or talk about their backup strategy, or whatever - while hoping the day never comes when they actually need that tricky "Restore" feature.

            1. eichin · 1790033599 · focus · HN ↗

               Glacier, and I think a couple of Iron Mountain products, exist for "cheap backups, really expensive restores" because the restore is going to be paid for by insurance (or by a counterparty when it's explicitly used for escrow.) So there is an explicit market for this (in the backup-of-things, rather than backup-of-capabilities, space.)

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