http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article335867.ece
"It has since emerged that the blaze could not have happened at a worse time for the company. Northgate duplicates its clients' information on computers at the site. At around 7am every morning a courier would collect the data on disk to take off site for safe storage. Because the blaze happened at around 6am, before collection, a whole day's worth of data collected on behalf of clients was destroyed." Heh. After over forty-five years of mainframe operations, some a******s haven't even yet realised that automation is best. Sod the Post Office, and sod the couriers - we have enough cheap bandwidth now and enough technology to get the stuff out to a remote duplicate AS IT HAPPENS. What's with this 07:00 crap? Print the article, frame it, and stick it on the wall. "But there is a real risk of losing data. If there is no back-up, the only way to deal with it is to input the lost data again. In some cases this may not be possible." Just a little matter of getting the customer to back to the store, simulate a week's shopping, and let you swipe their card on the basis of pure trust. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
