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."

Re:Shit happens

[Anonymous Coward]

No data was destroyed, they regularly made backups to an offsite facility. Additionally the flood only affected the "mechanical" room, no servers were destroyed or damaged. Getting back on their feet from that incident isn't "starting over from scratch" by a long shot. Also, the data center users were reminded of the convenience that the electronic data processing affords them. Think of it as an unscheduled admin appreciation week. All the urgent stuff was handled manually and the rest, well, wasn't urgent.

Re:Something like that happened to us...

[molo]

I think you mean WAN.

-molo

Re:Prepared government or small government pick on

[Anonymous Coward]

In what world do you live in that the government is ultimately responsible for a massive oil spill that was caused by a corporation?

While the government may be responsible for the fact that the regulations weren't followed every step of the way, the company that is behind the actions on the rig are ultimately fully responsible for not following those rules and regulations. I'm glad that the government can help in any way possible, but BP should foot the bill.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[Crudely_Indecent]

This is Dallas, where the City Council is doing such a good job, they're trying to get 270% raises and to double the length of their terms.

Re:Silly rabbit.

[AK Marc]

I know you meant to be funny, but the City of Dallas and the County of Dallas are distinct and unrelated governmental entities. You are complaining about the city, but the county is the one affected by the flood. Don't tarnish the bad name of the city with the bad name of the county.