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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by rsync on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:22PM (#36895942)
You should consider this possible lesson:

"Our simple model that fails gracefully did so and was simple to recover"

Redundancies and failsafes are not free - they add complexity.

99.9% availability fails in boring ways.

99.999% availability fails in fascinating ways.

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