"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message
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> "Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message
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>
> > Nothing but admiration for you. You had the foresight to put one node
> > upstairs?
>
>
> No, both are situated in basement. In fact is very difficult (from
> building construction point of view) to have big computer server site
> elsewhere than in basement.
> We have two sites with about 15km distance between them. One is
> situated in centre of Prague and another one in surrounding area of
> Prague. The one outside of centre is really high above the river
> (water stopped about three km from us). Even that one in centre was
> not damaged by river (which is very fortunate, because there is
> computer equipment worth hundreds of millions USD), but elektricity
> supply was switch off and it will be very difficult to keep gasoline
> generators in work for several days. Not mentioning that would not be
> a good idea to keep support people near flooded area where all traffic
> infrastructure was flooded or even destroyed.
> So we were doing our business using just one site, IT was not fully
> functional, but crucial services were kept running. So everything is
> OK.
> Maybe, OK is not a good phrase to describe situation here. Our company
> (and also me as personal) suffered only minor losses, but overall
> damage in Prague and in whole country is extreme.
>
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> _________________________________________
>
> Dusan Bolek, Ing.
> Oracle team leader
An excellent story, and one I hope you will write up when the time is
appropriate. In the mean time best wishes from England where we habitually
complain if there is two inches of rain.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Thu Aug 15 2002 - 07:23:01 CDT
