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> Maybe a digital system that is periodically (say once a year) transferred to tape and stored in a secure facility This has been standard procedure (not at Sv
by culturestate 4y ago
> Maybe a digital system that is periodically (say once a year) transferred to tape and stored in a secure facility
This has been standard procedure (not at Svalbard, obviously, but at one or more secure offsite facilities) for every critical data system I’ve ever personally encountered in regulated industry, though rotations are usually weekly/monthly rather than yearly.
- kneebonian 4y ago> This has been standard procedure Are they testing the backups and restoring from them regularly, because if they aren't there isn't any backup happening.
- Dylan16807 4y agoFor this kind of system, probably very yes. But I don't blame you for asking, when there are stories of irreplaceable nuclear test data being stuffed on some RAIDs and then nobody replacing the disk failures for years and years...
- rcarr 4y agoThis is good to know. I've never had the privilege of working on such a system so it is nice to know that this kind of thing is actually happening. Especially when government preparation for any potential pandemic seemed to be piss poor right across the board.