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In Fight Club, something happens at the end.

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...would everyone's loans/credit debt/etc really disappear? Do a few key buildings maintain the records for ALL individuals in the US?

And if that indeed happened, what would be the repercussions? Would you ever have to pay back that debt you had?

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Originally posted by: scorpious
...would everyone's loans/credit debt/etc really disappear? Do a few key buildings maintain the records for ALL individuals in the US?

And if that indeed happened, what would be the repercussions? Would you ever have to pay back that debt you had?
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don't those large companies have backup centers on the other side of the country?
 
lol ......no thats not how it works. they have Disaster recovery plans with full redundancy automatic fail over for everything. Some may even have disaster recover plans for their disaster recovery plans.
 
If that were the case their entire IS staff would be shit-canned within an hour.

Companies that big have backups of their backups and then off site backups of those. If a meteor destroyed all of the USA, your debt would still be around to haunt you.
 
Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
lol ......no thats not how it works. they have Disaster recovery plans with full redundancy automatic fail over for everything. Some may even have disaster recover plans for their disaster recovery plans.
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Hmmm...I think someone had a thread about this a while back with links to testing??

 
Take an IBM z/Series mainframe that was in WTC on 9-11. They were still phoning home after the building fell down.

Big iron is rugged.
 
I think they have everything backed up on flash keys plugged into computer A and backed up on computer B so things should be safe.

The entire system hinges on unique computer names though.
 
Originally posted by: FP
I think they have everything backed up on flash keys plugged into computer A and backed up on computer B.

The entire system hinges on the computer names though.
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Originally posted by: FleshLight
Their data centers are not in their corporate offices.
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And even if they were, they have disaster recovery sites set up to take over as soon as a production site goes down.

Even if the disaster recovery sites had a problem, most of the data would still be backed up off-site at yet another location.

Hell... If the IT guys did their job right, they shouldn't have more than a few minutes of downtime while everything switches over.
 
I've worked for 3 major lending institutions, including two banks. One company had every bit of data stored in a vault in colorado. Both banks have two offsite backup locations.
 
The movie was made in 1998-1999 and maybe took place in a couple years before that so this could take place in the mid/early nineties when the internet was just taking off so there wasn't all the cyber-security threats that there are today so massive redundancies and backups may not have been implemented yet.
 
If it were really bad I expect them to lose 24 hours of data. But yeah in order to occompish what flight club did, you would have to get the primaries, the back ups, and the online back ups, and the back ups that the IT guy stores for a rainy day.
 
Originally posted by: mchammer187
The movie was made in 1998-1999 and maybe took place in a couple years before that so this could take place in the mid/early nineties when the internet was just taking off so there wasn't all the cyber-security threats that there are today so massive redundancies and backups may not have been implemented yet.
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Backups back then were still well ahead of what most folks would think.

Our local hospital in a rink dink town was using huge optical discs to store massive amounts of information (Xrays, MRIs, etc.), and that was 1993 or so. Those were then duplicated and kept off-site.
 
Originally posted by: Pollock
Originally posted by: Titan
Take an IBM z/Series mainframe that was in WTC on 9-11. They were still phoning home after the building fell down.

Big iron is rugged.
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:Q Link?
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wow, they still had power and a network connection after the buildings collapsed? shens...
 
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