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"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: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday June 25 2015, @04:22AM
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?
Nah, they are still holding the quarter finals in the parking lot.
On a more serious note:
If you HAVE a hundred DBAs hanging in the wings, that might be a clue as to what happened in the first place.
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