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Water Main Break Floods Dallas Data Center

Posted by Soulskill on from the five-thousand-hats-worth dept.

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."

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  1. Tested Backups? by Ichijo · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Officials stressed, however, that no data was lost during the shutdown because of automatic nightly backups at an off-site location.

    Next question. Has the backup and restore process been tested?

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