Water Main Break Floods Dallas Data Center

miller60 writes "IT systems in Dallas County were offline for three days last week after a water main break flooded the basement of the Dallas County Records Building, which houses the UPS systems and other electrical equipment supporting a data center in the building. The county does not have a backup data center, despite warnings that it faced the risk of service disruption without one."

Sewer line

[Anonymous Coward]

At least it wasn't a sewer line break, that would be real shitty.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[jo_ham]

This is Texas - God is their backup solution.

Every night they pray for no hardware failures.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

God is their backup solution.

If this is true, shouldn't they have been prepared for a flood?

Re:Silly rabbit.

[vlm]

If this is true, shouldn't they have been prepared for a flood?

Their mistake was preparing for the burning bush, from the oil spill, instead of the flood.

Re:Texas doesn't need backup.

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe they didn't execute enough retarded people this year?

They'll get around to you, don't worry.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[gyrogeerloose]

Their mistake was preparing for the burning bush, from the oil spill, instead of the flood.

They should have known better, having already passed off their burning Bush to the rest of the United States back in 2000.

Re:Tested Backups?

[NevarMore]

It has now.

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Re:Texas doesn't need backup.

[PopeRatzo]

While Governor of Texas, Former President George W. Bush, signed a bill into law proclaiming June 10, 2000 to be Jesus Day

Wow.

This year, they decided to re-write textbooks to eliminate the "liberal bias".

You know what? Maybe the Dallas datacenter going out without a backup is a blessing in disquise.

You think we could get Texas to secede if we asked them real nice? We can give them Arizona and a state to be named later, as long as they promise to never tell anyone that they were once part of the United States.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[bertoelcon]

You weren't supposed to send him back though.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[theshowmecanuck]

They didn't care. Most of the data referred to Thomas Jefferson.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[couchslug]

"This is Texas - God is their backup solution."

So much for that. I prayed to Allah for a flood.

Dont worry

[AHuxley]

They nice people from a regional http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center [wikipedia.org] will have all the data backed up for any state database. eg http://www.fusionsystem.us/ [fusionsystem.us]
Staffed by IT experts eg the NSA, they all have clearance and just love to take good care of all of your regional data 24/7.
Been state and federally funded they will have fancy off site backups in real time.
Many snapshots of the data will be flowing around the USA at any time.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[zippthorne]

Word is he was out on his boat...

Re:Silly rabbit.

[neonKow]

They were. The data they lost was obviously wicked data that needed to be cleansed from this earth.