Annals of bad luck: when primary, backup, and second backup power fail

zigzag3143 · Jun 18, 2012

Data centers and servers can fail for all sorts of reasons. That's true for businesses running data centers for their own employees' needs. It's true even when you're Amazon, one of the largest data center operators in the world and the most popular provider of infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offerings.

http://arstechnica.com/information-...-primary-backup-and-second-backup-power-fail/

zigzag3143 · Jun 18, 2012

Another source

http://arstechnica.com/information-...-primary-backup-and-second-backup-power-fail/

Corrine · Jun 19, 2012

From the 2nd source:

A cable fault took down the main service, a defective cooling fan messed up a backup generator, and finally an incorrectly configured circuit breaker caused secondary backup to fail.

The same kind of catastrophe can happen at home. That is why a friend has images stored several ways: two different external hard drives and disks. She rotates where she puts them. That way, if one hd dies or a disk in unreadable, she still has an image elsewhere. It might not be the latest but it is better than going back to factory condition.

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Annals of bad luck: when primary, backup, and second backup power fail

zigzag3143

Contributor, Sysnative Staff Emeritus

zigzag3143

Contributor, Sysnative Staff Emeritus

Corrine

Administrator,
Microsoft MVP,
Security Analyst

Annals of bad luck: when primary, backup, and second backup power fail

zigzag3143

Contributor, Sysnative Staff Emeritus

zigzag3143

Contributor, Sysnative Staff Emeritus

Corrine

Administrator, Microsoft MVP, Security Analyst

Administrator,
Microsoft MVP,
Security Analyst