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What actually happens when a server dies?
Good infrastructure is not designed to stop servers failing. It is designed around what happens next.
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Tag: Disaster recovery
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A backup you have never restored is not a backup
Every system we have been asked to rescue had backups. The interesting question is never whether they run.
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RAID is not a backup. Neither is replication.
RAID survives a failed disk. Replication survives a failed machine. Neither survives deleting the wrong directory.
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