ISP Recovers in 72 Hours After Leveling by Tornado

aldheorte writes "Amazing story of how an ISP in Jackson, TN, whose main facility was completely leveled by a tornado, recovered in 72 hours. The story is a great recounting of how they executed their disaster recovery plan, what they found they had left out of that plan, data recovery from destroyed hard drives, and perhaps the best argument ever for offsite backups. (Not affiliated with the ISP in question)"

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I'd settle for...

[siskbc]

Wow...Jackson, TN has electricity. Now it has computers and the Internet. What's next? Evolution in schools?

...evolution of their knuckle-dragging residents.

Good Thing They 're Not a TV Network

[RobotRunAmok]

...cuz they'd be the laughing stock of their industry.

The TV Ope Geeks always get such a big kick out of their l'il Internet brothers. It was fascinating to watch the melding of these two geek cultures in some shops circa late 90's. The I-Net guys were still getting all the dough and new toys, but thought that "Five Nines" was the name of a new Goth Band. Meanwhile, the TV dudes ("Yo, I got yer "streamin' video" right *here*!) were besides themselves as they watched the Young Gods attempt to re-invent rich-content distribution.

This not meant as a knock to either "side" of course; the story just inspired a brief traipse down Memory Lane...

Re:Amazing is an innapropriate adjective

[stratjakt]

Yep, thats the way it works. I dont crawl around on the floor plugging shit in and getting dirty.

But you forgot the rest of the story. ...5 minutes later

Me "Yeah, it took IT a fucking hour to plug my computer back into the switch."

CTO "An hour? What the hell."

Me "Yeah some high school kid argued with me on the phone for 15 minutes about jibber and jabber and didnt want to come up here. Then some kid shows up and sits around just randomly clicking shit on my desktop, and types 'ping 127.0.0.1' into the command prompt like he knows what hes doing. I told the kid 50 times that theres something physically wrong with the network. But you know, he's taken a weekend course on computers and needs to act like he's got some sort of skill. It was a friggin joke. I swear to god, it took an hour for him to plug in an ethernet cable"

CTO "Who was it? They're fired."

Seriously, you talking about taking an hour to plug in a cable like it was someone elses fault just justifies everything I feel about dipshit administrators.

They're just added beurocracy for the computer world, and I work to replace them each and every day with more sophisticated self-administrating softwares.