hutcheson - 1:28 am on Jul 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

....their back up data center was impacted as well!

It doesn't take Murphy's Law to guarantee that backups fail only when they're needed. Backups are _used_ only when they're needed. Everything fails sometime.

I've long argued that the only reliable backup is two systems, running in tandem, ALL the time, each acting as backup for the other. In THAT scenario, the "backup" machine would PROBABLY fail only when the "primary" machine was there to back it up.

So far, nobody's listened to me.