"Failure would be heaped upon failure, disaster upon disaster"

Over on Dizwell Informatics you’ll read a great post about a real life restore/recovery experience and lessons learned.

“I’ve gone on at some length on this matter partly because if you had told me that failure would be heaped upon failure, disaster upon disaster, rendering all recovery plans null and void, I would never have believed you. One thing after another went wrong that weekend, closing off one recovery avenue after another, and whilst I had literally just posted here about risk minimisation, ‘15 links in a chain’ and ‘the chain is only as strong as its weakest link’; and whilst I told management that I had no confidence in our current recovery capabilities; I confess to nevertheless having had a sneaking belief that it would probably be alright on the night. I honestly wasn’t expecting all 15 links to fail at the same time -but that’s exactly what they did.”

Read the whole post over on Dizwell Informatics…