Re: [cobalt-users] Managing risk.

[Colin Smith <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Daniel Pumphrey wrote:

> Just a note here:
> 
> 99.9% availability is just over 8 hours of downtime - it takes most sites
> this long to restore from a backup after replacing a defective drive - then
> you are out of downtime the rest of the year.  I would NEVER bank on 99.9%
> uptime WITHOUT raid, redundant power, etc.

But how many times per year do systems fail?

:-)

In that case they may well want to rethink their backup stratagies. I
suspect that a lot of sites (the majority even) do not figure backup and
recovery into their calculations when they configure their networks and
systems.


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