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Old May 30th 17, 11:46 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default BA IT collapse -- what effect on ttains?



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On Mon, 29 May 2017 15:46:34 +0100
Neil Williams wrote:
On 2017-05-29 08:43:37 +0000, Roland Perry said:

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mber.org, at 20:10:12 on Sun, 28 May 2017, Recliner
remarked:

That's why it's not wise to make precise accusations at this stage. Of
course, any professional data centre shouldn't collapse for most of a
day
if there's a power supply problem. It should have UPS

But unlikely to have hours worth of UPS.


If it's business-critical, generators to power for an indefinite period
(provided fuel is added) should be present.


Indeed. Whether it was a UPS failure, a generator failure, a DC bus
failure
or a cat ****ed on the routers, there should have been a backup site to
take over in a situation like this. There wasn't, presumably to cut costs
and that decision comes from the top. Well you reep what you sow. I'd be
very
surprised if Mr Cruz is still in his job this time next month.

On a related note, why the hell do people travel on a bank holiday anyway?
Is that extra free day off work really worth all the stress and hassle of
the train/air/ship delays or the 10 mile traffic jams?


It's been like that for at least 40 years

so obviously some people think that it is

tim