From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HVyXC-0007eh-GI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:23:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2QNMOCG003034; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:22:24 GMT Received: from mail.cingo.net (cingo.cingo.net [206.246.224.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2QNKRYt000788 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:20:28 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.101] (pool-151-199-96-91.roa.east.verizon.net [151.199.96.91]) by mail.cingo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA02A204CB for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:20:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <46085539.7020001@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:20:25 -0400 From: bret curtis User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract References: <1174788467.4883.29.camel@bruichladdich> <1174915159.8207.17.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <4607E6B7.7020503@exceedtech.net> <200703270022.08622.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200703270022.08622.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7d09a3e6-b721-446b-89d1-e05d5fcb3b04 X-Archives-Hash: d9e2537d2b5e7a8f0834bcd21d78c8f9 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007, Dale wrote: > > [snip] > Actually the situation is not that hypothetical. Some years ago the datacenter > of the University of Twente (The Netherlands) was set to fire by an angry > systems administrator. The building housed among other infrastructure vital > to the university also some machines of great importance to the debian > project. Due to a combined effort of suppliers, the university staff and the > fact that they had a new datacenter that happened to be about to open, most > things were up an running again in a few days. The thing I'm worried about > most is insurrance. I trust that infra has backups of the important things > like our repositories. > > Paul > > Only wimps use tape backup: *real **men* just upload their important stuff on *ftp*, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- LT :1996 I have no doubt that Gentoo as a distribution can bounce back from something catastrophic mostly because of how portage makes a snapshot of the tree on everyone's Gentoo distribution at any point in time and same applies to repositories and people that check them out. More than likely we will loose some history and time but it wouldn't be a total lose. It definently won't all go up in a puff of smoke. That aside, does Gentoo have a disaster mitigation and recovery plan and is it published? A cursory glance on google shows none available. I haven't bothered do my own research, so by all means flame on, but does the pont of contact for the domain name still alive? All I have is Scottsdale Arizona and a phone number from whois, for all I know it could be drobbins. :P -- bret curtis -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list