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NRT-LAX. Boarded ... And cancelled
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Originally Posted by walterD
(Post 27032000)
According to the flight captain of JFK-SLC this morning, a routine scheduled switch to the backup generator this morning at 2:30am caused a fire that destroyed both the backup and the primary. Firefighters took a while to extinguish the fire. Power is now back up and 400 out of the 500 servers rebooted, still waiting for the last 100 to have the whole system fully functional.
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
(Post 27031922)
Considering Anderson's love of old but proven technology, the DL computer running on Cobol 1.0 must have run into a snag when one (or more) of the triode tubes burned out at the punchcard mainframe. :D
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nvr mind
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Originally Posted by jacobac00
(Post 27032008)
All I.T. execs should be given the boot if that is the case. If you have that kind of major event at your primary data center, you immediately fail over to your backup. Even a complex system like DL should have a 30 minute restore time for an event like this, and that is still slow. Amazing how some many big companies just "hope" things will always work.
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Originally Posted by DiverDave
(Post 27031978)
You nailed it. ^ ^
Though I would think about most flights would be zeroed out while everything gets sorted. Fortunately, I am not flying today, but I am sure the cleanup will continue into tomorrow when I am flying. David |
Originally Posted by jacobac00
(Post 27032008)
If you have that kind of major event at your primary data center, you immediately fail over to your backup.
Ah... backup! Brilliant! ;) |
Originally Posted by jacobac00
(Post 27032008)
All I.T. execs should be given the boot if that is the case. If you have that kind of major event at your primary data center, you immediately fail over to your backup. Even a complex system like DL should have a 30 minute restore time for an event like this, and that is still slow. Amazing how some many big companies just "hope" things will always work.
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Originally Posted by bretthexum
(Post 27032003)
NRT-LAX. Boarded ... And cancelled
Is there space and time to rebook people for flights leaving today? |
Originally Posted by walterD
(Post 27032000)
According to the flight captain of JFK-SLC this morning, a routine scheduled switch to the backup generator this morning at 2:30am caused a fire that destroyed both the backup and the primary. Firefighters took a while to extinguish the fire. Power is now back up and 400 out of the 500 servers rebooted, still waiting for the last 100 to have the whole system fully functional.
On many DR plans, there are known weak spots where a company knows it has a deficiency and makes a conscious decision to not invest in resolving. For the average company, this would likely fall into this area, but for a company the size of Delta it's surprising. Obviously this is entirely speculation but more importantly, if there was a fire I hope no one was injured. |
Originally Posted by AAExPlat
(Post 27032034)
Totally agreed. And failing over to secondary has never been easier than today, given cloud options AND local secondary options. I just don't get what their game plan ever was...
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Originally Posted by DiverDave
(Post 27031978)
Fortunately, I am not flying today, but I am sure the cleanup will continue into tomorrow when I am flying.
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
(Post 27031780)
but you pay the fare difference
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Future Reservations Impacted
Just went to view my reservation for next week and all of my upgrade requests are gone. Don't even see the option to select Y+ and/or F.
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Originally Posted by MrAndy1369
(Post 27032053)
Huh? So DL expects pax to pay the fare difference for their mistake? :confused:
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