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Water Main Break Floods Dallas Data Center
miller60 writes "IT systems in Dallas County were offline for three days last week after a water main break flooded the basement of the Dallas County Records Building, which houses the UPS systems and other electrical equipment supporting a data center in the building. The county does not have a backup data center, despite warnings that it faced the risk of service disruption without one."
At least it wasn't a sewer line break, that would be real shitty.
This is Texas - God is their backup solution.
Every night they pray for no hardware failures.
God is their backup solution.
If this is true, shouldn't they have been prepared for a flood?
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
If this is true, shouldn't they have been prepared for a flood?
Their mistake was preparing for the burning bush, from the oil spill, instead of the flood.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Maybe they didn't execute enough retarded people this year?
They'll get around to you, don't worry.
Their mistake was preparing for the burning bush, from the oil spill, instead of the flood.
They should have known better, having already passed off their burning Bush to the rest of the United States back in 2000.
This ain't rocket surgery.
It has now.
Supposedly, they have an employee named Noah responsible for off-site backups. Ask him.
Life is not for the lazy.
Wow.
This year, they decided to re-write textbooks to eliminate the "liberal bias".
You know what? Maybe the Dallas datacenter going out without a backup is a blessing in disquise.
You think we could get Texas to secede if we asked them real nice? We can give them Arizona and a state to be named later, as long as they promise to never tell anyone that they were once part of the United States.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You weren't supposed to send him back though.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
They didn't care. Most of the data referred to Thomas Jefferson.
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"This is Texas - God is their backup solution."
So much for that. I prayed to Allah for a flood.
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They nice people from a regional http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center will have all the data backed up for any state database. eg http://www.fusionsystem.us/
Staffed by IT experts eg the NSA, they all have clearance and just love to take good care of all of your regional data 24/7.
Been state and federally funded they will have fancy off site backups in real time.
Many snapshots of the data will be flowing around the USA at any time.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Word is he was out on his boat...
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
They were. The data they lost was obviously wicked data that needed to be cleansed from this earth.