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  • NathA
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    10 months ago

    The one time I moved a data center, we did it in two trucks for this very reason. Of course, it wouldn’t have been the whole organization lost, we had more than one data center. But yeah - the two planes part of this story makes complete sense to me.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I feel like the part about developing two different systems to apparently do the same thing, was much stupider.

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 months ago

        The planes were protection against an incredibly slim chance considering how incredibly safe air travel is (dramatically more likely to lose them in a truck accident on the way to or from the airport than on the plane), while the two different systems were guaranteed to be a massive waste of resources and time