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Repost from this NG -Sept 3, 01- WTC
Here is an post concerning data backup, terrorism, and the World Trade Center
which was first put here on Sept. 3, 2001. --- From: Thor Lancelot Simon ) Subject: Disaster Stories Needed Newsgroups: alt.computer.consultants, alt.disasters.misc, comp.arch.storage Date: 2001-09-03 20:18:29 PST In article , James Donovan wrote: (Thor Lancelot Simon) wrote in message ... In article , James Donovan wrote: Your "CIO" obviously doesnt know that fire, earthquake or terrorist activities can destroy equipment and backup tapes stored onsite. Wasn't he around for the WTC bombing? Companies in there lost tons of data (among other things) that wasnt stored offsite. Geez he needs a reality check. Curiously enough, I would tend to expect that the CIOs of most American companies do not consider terrorist bombing of their datacenters very likely. Another example might be... more persuasive. Oh yeah? He should read : http://www.panix.com/~clays/Una/ Are you aware of any bombings of datacenters, by the Unabomber or anyone else, in the United States, in the past ten years? How about twenty years? How about ever? The only thing I can think of that might qualify would be to categorize someone's departmental servers in the Trade Center as a "datacenter", but that kind of scare tactic generally works only on the foolish. So, anyway, if I catch your drift, you're suggesting that the thing to do in order to persuade some tightfisted CIO to spring for offsite backup is to drop off a copy of Kaczinsky's manifesto on his desk. That seems like a *great* idea. Why don't you try it and let us all know how it works? However, next time I'm trying to sell someone something, myself, I think I'll pick an example that he can actually relate to, like a flood or a fire. Maybe I'm just stupid. |
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