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We used to keep our floppy backups on the other side of the same floppy.
The floppy is then placed on the side of a metal file cabinet with a magnet.
Nowadays we use Deep Atlantic Storage just like the pioneers and tech giants.
Water molecules are redundant by design so that no backup is necessary.
Partial power outage? Doesn't look like your Node lost power.
Just curious, there was a DC a few years back that "faked" a power outage.
Basically they had a complete network outage but informed the costumers that everything has gone dark. Fun Fact was the colocated hardware was still up and running but everything rented was power cycled.
That’s such a weird thing to lie about. Why on earth would they power cycle rented hardware on purpose or fake it? Isn’t saying that you had a network outage better than saying that you had a full power outage?
lmao
It was pretty wired, they also said that regionally there was a power disruption but when people tried to confirm or deny that, they could not find any sources.
On the other hand, they suppose to have redundant power.
Router failure: SLA credits.
Power outage: factor outside provider's control.
We all know WA state has the net neutrality laws, even for carrier services and out of state packets. So, I ordered additional power feeds and decided to onboard KF. Cogent and HE got pissed, they shut the ports down and the DC pulled the plug. I had to boot them to get everything back online. Sorry guys.
/sarcasm
That's genius because the same code also incorporates parity.
Truly brilliant clap clap.
Thanks! You are the first person ever to approve of my backup strategy! So happy to finally hear a good voice out of the choir
Call it selection bias or Russian roulette, it's my backup strategy, baby!
Edit: actually I'm doing it for real
But it's more complicated than that, I swear I can explain, honey.
A power supply with a crowbar also helps.
OK. I can understand a sex hotline where you're talking to a missus in real time, but sex VOICEMAILS? That's more pathetic than foot fetishists.
In Raid 5 we trust.
You seem surprised considering how many times you’ve called in leaving voicemails. Always going on about some kinda nuggets and immediate release.
What is a raid 5?
Not a backup 🦜
I don't think any of the providers offering service to KF ever had this issue, or confusing Vancouver for Seattle for that matter.
When we had KF in WA state, all HE did was drop KF's route to their IPs. It impacted only KF.
Seems like we have a few bright ones in this thread.
+1 for community lore!
Is there also a law in your state that prohibits 3rd or, gosh, even 4th nameservers, and to really drive it to the absurd extreme, even some outside of your AS?
Just asking for a provider friend who is kind of really extreme and has internal nameservers, mainly for customers, as well as 3 (!!! what a pervert!) nameservers, 2 of which are outside his AS, just to be sure that he doesn't look like belly up in case something ugly happens with/within his AS.
But of course as we all know such events nevar happen.
That's why real hardcore provider pros just have one with 2 IPs, within their AS of course.
Well, yes and no. One can't trust Raid 5 with small drives - but with 2+ TB one can. The biggerer the morer trust.
Yea the longer it takes for these fat drives to resync, so you have a higher chance of another one failing and taking the entire raid with it. gg.
Tsk, rumors.
Now, here are hard facts: I once had Raid5 with (brand spanking new) spinning 4 TB drives and not only did that array survive the array creation but I also had it run (copying stuff) for no less than about 20 minutes - which is about 1200 seconds or 1,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds which, I think we all can agree, is a quite large number.
Qed: large drive Raid5 arrays can be safer than 5.25" floppies (in certain favourable circumstances. Please see page 7 to 123 of the finer details printed in Arial 4pt. in lite grey).
Yea empty disks, but what if you put heavy porn on it?
Not to speak of fucking hentai, very heavy.
I disabled write cache on all disks after the UPS failed and I found out that a power failure would always lead to a resync.
Now storage is slow as fuck but at least it's solid and hard like an ice floe.
Maybe there was very little plugged into the UPS your machine was plugged into, so the battery could last longer during an outage, but the other UPS were more heavily loaded and used up all their power.
Maybe their machines were all set to shut down automatically if power wasn't restored within a certain time period so that they had time to do a clean shutdown before the battery ran out.
Maybe your machine is in a different part of the building and the power issue was a tripped breaker.
All of these are possible options that would agree with their claim, without implying anything nefarious.
Hello, the vps is still without response. IPv4 seems to be invalid. The work order has been sent. But you did not reply to close.howtodo
I have 3 tiered encrypted back-ups on mission critical systems.
I used to have a different scheme, 333, 3 different back-ups, daily, weekly, monthly, 3 different locations with 3 different providers, but it was too cumbersome, now, on the home server I am also saving an yearly set on cold storage (I attach USB disk, copy, remove and store in another house 130 Km away).
so it's happened again lol
Incompetence unpatched always doomed to repeat it-self.
Ah so that’s why KF is down.
Francisco
when namecrane??!?!?!?