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US State Department Computer Problems Cause Major Travel Headaches

posted by takyon on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the mastercard dept.

microtodd writes:

"The US State Department has been unable to issue visas to travelers or guest workers for the past two weeks," according to The New York Times and Ars Technica.

According to an article there was a failover DB but it was corrupted too. More proof that no one takes backups and high-availability seriously until suddenly its a major disaster? Not a lot of technical detail, maybe someone here knows more. In any case, the impact here is actually pretty big.

The article says 100 people raced to fix the problem. 100 seems like a LOT of people to bring up a new server. Maybe they were hand-typing in all the lost db records?

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Freeman on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:38PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:38PM (#200643) Journal

    The first 95 were support people in India. It took them a while to find the 5 that were in the US.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:44PM (#200644)

    You're sig is very apt for this story