On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:22 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > 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. The hosting Gentoo gets from GNi is a world class service in some of the best data centers in the world. Everything important gets backed up nightly from one data center to another. As GNi/365 Main move into more data centers world wide chances are Gentoo will be moving into those additionally as well. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
