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Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Monday 26 March 2007, Dale wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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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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Only wimps use tape backup: *real **men* just upload their important |
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stuff on *ftp*, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- LT :1996 |
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I have no doubt that Gentoo as a distribution can bounce back from |
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something catastrophic mostly because of how portage makes a snapshot of |
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the tree on everyone's Gentoo distribution at any point in time and same |
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applies to repositories and people that check them out. More than likely |
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we will loose some history and time but it wouldn't be a total lose. It |
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definently won't all go up in a puff of smoke. |
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That aside, does Gentoo have a disaster mitigation and recovery plan and |
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is it published? A cursory glance on google shows none available. I |
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haven't bothered do my own research, so by all means flame on, but does |
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the pont of contact for the domain name still alive? |
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All I have is Scottsdale Arizona and a phone number from whois, for all |
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I know it could be drobbins. :P |
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-- bret curtis |
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