by In working on some promo material for Sysadmin Days we started looking at Jesse’s Disaster Recovery class.
Over the weekend a total hardware loss at Designwyse came up on #LOPSA. See some pictures showing complete destruction.
It occurs to me that it would be handy for LOPSA and System Administrators to have some pictures of machine and data center destruction to use for materials and for showing people why off-site backups, disaster recovery and data integrity are important.
We could also use stories of outages caused by disasters. Ever been flooded? Burned down? Been moved across the street by a tornado? Had your datacenter lock customers out? Had your solar panels covered in martian sand?
Luckily, I don’t have any such experiences in my past! 🙂
Post your experiences and pictures we can use in the comments and let’s keep pushing for more resilient infrastructure.