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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:44AM (#200802)

    Do you build those in your software?

  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Dr Spin on Thursday June 25 2015, @06:02AM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Thursday June 25 2015, @06:02AM (#200811)

    Yes, but it is government software: if the data is sane, then it is incompatible with the application layer!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @03:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @03:46PM (#201029)

      Also, wouldn't you expect lots of corruption in the government anyway?

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday June 29 2015, @03:36PM

        by Freeman (732) on Monday June 29 2015, @03:36PM (#202840) Journal

        One could hope that there wouldn't be, especially for something like this. Part of the issue why it takes the Government to do anything, is they usually have a book to do things by, which means more time, and a whole pile of more money. I'm sure someone could run a nuclear reactor without so many government regulations, but would you want them to? I might be inclined to say that it would be okay. So long as they aren't doing it in my state and they are at least 1,000 miles away from me, just in case.

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