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Cake day: September 9th, 2023

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  • I remember back when I first started seeing a DR plan with three tiers of restore, 1 hour, 12 hours or 72 hours. I knew that to 1 hour meant a simple redirect to a DB partition that was a real time copy of the active DB, and twelve hours meant that failed, so the twelve hours was a restore point exercise that would mean some data loss, but less than one hour, or something like that.

    I had never heard of 72 hours and so raised a question in the meeting. 72 hours meant having physical tapes shipped to the data center, and I believe meant up to 12 (though it could have been 24) hours of data lost. I was impressed by this, because the idea of having a job that ran either daily or twice daily that created tape backups was completely new to me.

    This was in the early aughts. Not sure if tapes are still used…









  • And the insurrection act was created to mobilize soldiery against citizenry.

    People who have experienced armed conflict are pretty clear that every other avenue should be explored. I can only imagine what would happen if people started taking pot shots at government law enforcement.

    I can only imagine, but I am fairly certain that others don’t have to rely on imagination because I am very sure there are plans in place to respond with force if anyone were to do that.

    I would also guess there are people in positions of power who are just waiting for a reason to escalate things even further.

    Peaceful means of resistance should always be exhausted before anything else is considered.