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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by buran77 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:28AM (#26410972)
Reliability is there to keep your things running smoothly during normal operations. Backups are there for when you reach the end of your reliability rope. Neither is really a good replacement for the other. The most reliable systems will still fail eventually, and the best of backups can't run your day to day operations.

At the end of the day you have a budget (of any kind) and a list of priorities on which to spend it. It's up to you or your management to set a reasonable budget, and to set the right priorities. If they refuse, leave or you'll just burn the candle at both ends and just fade out.

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by klingon78 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:48AM (#26411137)
Backups are a reliability tool, yes.

A backup on its own is of little worth if unused.

When a backup is used to re-enable something, then the amount of time disabled may be decreased. When it is, this is reliability- we keep things usable and in function, more than not.

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