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BA's 'global IT system failure' was due to 'power surge'

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Re: "Tirelessly"?

Seriously, don't BA have a remote DR site?

Of course it does, it's kitted out with WMRN drives (Write Many, Read Never) but they were having a reliability problem with them causing slow writes so they redirected the backups to dev/null - it was much faster.

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