Paul de Vrieze wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007, Dale wrote:
[snip]
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
Only wimps use tape backup: *real **men* just upload their important
stuff on *ftp*, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- LT :1996
I have no doubt that Gentoo as a distribution can bounce back from
something catastrophic mostly because of how portage makes a snapshot of
the tree on everyone's Gentoo distribution at any point in time and same
applies to repositories and people that check them out. More than likely
we will loose some history and time but it wouldn't be a total lose. It
definently won't all go up in a puff of smoke.
That aside, does Gentoo have a disaster mitigation and recovery plan and
is it published? A cursory glance on google shows none available. I
haven't bothered do my own research, so by all means flame on, but does
the pont of contact for the domain name still alive?
All I have is Scottsdale Arizona and a phone number from whois, for all
I know it could be drobbins. :P
-- bret curtis
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