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On Monday 26 March 2007, Dale wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 22:46 +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: |
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> >> And how exactly does this help us in the event of say the OSL burning |
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> >> down or the GNi suffering flooding? :) |
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> > |
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> > Well, we're on the second floor of the data center which has a quite |
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> > large basement, which would likely absorb most of the water. About the |
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> > only feasible way for our stuff to get flooded is if the San Andreas |
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> > finally gets the "big one" and the west coast of the US falls into the |
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> > Pacific, in which case, we'll be worried about other issues, I'm sure. |
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> > |
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> > That being said, you're more than welcome to assist Infrastructure (and |
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> > the Foundation) in finding new hosting locations as well as the manpower |
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> > to bring new services up in those locations or moving existing services. |
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> > Doing moves like this is a bunch of work, and not something I feel we |
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> > should be "dumping" on the Infrastructure team. |
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> Can I assume this building has indoor plumbing? It can be on the top |
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> floor and still get flooded. I saw a house once that the hot water |
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> heater busted and water was about a foot deep and was coming out the walls. |
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> More than one way to "flood" a building. :/ |
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Actually the situation is not that hypothetical. Some years ago the datacenter |
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of the University of Twente (The Netherlands) was set to fire by an angry |
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systems administrator. The building housed among other infrastructure vital |
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to the university also some machines of great importance to the debian |
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project. Due to a combined effort of suppliers, the university staff and the |
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fact that they had a new datacenter that happened to be about to open, most |
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things were up an running again in a few days. The thing I'm worried about |
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most is insurrance. I trust that infra has backups of the important things |
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like our repositories. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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