Re: Re: UKHA Archive Down

[Phillip Harris <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bit late to be worrying about that now and I'm sure that it's not as clear
cut as it seems - there'll have been a number of consultants involved and
decisions taken in setting up their systems.

I think it's always easy to criticise decisions on implementation of
systems after the event and when you're not involved directly - yes, it
does seem like a few pretty basic cockups in the design were missed but...

/me shrugs

Lets face it, with an infinite pot of money then every job should be done
right and every eventuality accounted for but there's no such thing as an
infinite pot of money. ;-)

Phil


On 25 Feb 2010, at 08:29, Groups wrote:

> Wow, these guys obviously had no disaster recovery plan.
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> What sort or organisation keeps there backup server (or tapes etc) in
> not only the same building, but the same room!!!
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of the_home_automator
> Sent: 25 February 2010 07:47
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: UKHA Archive Down
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> "These shared servers suffered a total loss, including the backup
server
> the backups were located on. A few hours ago, we contracted a third
> party data restoration service (at a great expense) to attempt to
> recover the data off the backup drives. At this point, we are waiting
to
> hear back from them to determine chances of full, partial, or no
backup
> scenario. As soon as we get the official word, we will update this
> status post. The situation with this server is dire, but we are
> exhausting every avenue possible to retrieve as much data as we
possibly
> can.
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> * UPDATE * The data recovery team is working on our backup drives - We
> won't know the result until tomorrow morning (2/25), expect an update
> then."
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> I forsee much work ahead...
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