On Monday 26 March 2007, Dale wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 22:46 +0100, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > >> And how exactly does this help us in the event of say the OSL burning > >> down or the GNi suffering flooding? :) > > > > Well, we're on the second floor of the data center which has a quite > > large basement, which would likely absorb most of the water. About the > > only feasible way for our stuff to get flooded is if the San Andreas > > finally gets the "big one" and the west coast of the US falls into the > > Pacific, in which case, we'll be worried about other issues, I'm sure. > > > > That being said, you're more than welcome to assist Infrastructure (and > > the Foundation) in finding new hosting locations as well as the manpower > > to bring new services up in those locations or moving existing services. > > Doing moves like this is a bunch of work, and not something I feel we > > should be "dumping" on the Infrastructure team. > > Can I assume this building has indoor plumbing? It can be on the top > floor and still get flooded. I saw a house once that the hot water > heater busted and water was about a foot deep and was coming out the walls. > > More than one way to "flood" a building. :/
Actually the situation is not that hypothetical. Some years ago the datacenter of the University of Twente (The Netherlands) was set to fire by an angry systems administrator. The building housed among other infrastructure vital to the university also some machines of great importance to the debian project. Due to a combined effort of suppliers, the university staff and the fact that they had a new datacenter that happened to be about to open, most things were up an running again in a few days. The thing I'm worried about most is insurrance. I trust that infra has backups of the important things like our repositories. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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