[P1] Woe is me...

[Eric B. Richardson]

At 4:48 PM +0100 12/6/02, Lewis, Benjamin (Ben) wrote:
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>I worked on a Network Operations project for a PTT who insisted on a 
>fully redundant system which was hermetically sealed in a nuke-proof 
>underground bunker.
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>It cost millions and was destroyed by a disgruntled employee who 
>took the backup tapes out of the safe, put them on top of the 
>server, poured petrol over the whole thing and set it alight.
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>No amount of firewall software could have stopped that. (if you'll 
>pardon the pun).

Which just goes to show that no system is truly redundant if it is 
not backed up off-site as well. That was in my backup 101 lessons, 
make two back-ups and store one somewhere else. What happens if your 
office burns down? Or someone flies a jet into it? It is clear that 
American businesses understood true redundancy or when the WTC went 
down, a number of firms would have lost all their data.