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A deep-sea 'emergency service' keeps the internet running (bbc.com)
Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country's internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of the ocean?

Internet Infrastructure, Technology, Underwater Technology, Networking, Disaster Recovery

80 points by rdl 37 days ago | 10 comments

Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel (ieee.org)
Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, causing a loss of power, meltdowns and a major release of radioactive material, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) finally seems to be close to extracting the first bit of melted fuel from the complex—thanks to a special telescopic robotic device.

Nuclear Power, Robotics, Japan, Disaster Recovery

146 points by rbanffy 45 days ago | 352 comments

Barman: Implement disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases (pgbarman.org)

Databases, Disaster Recovery, PostgreSQL

7 points by alexzeitler 128 days ago | 1 comments

Disaster Recovery with ZFS and Zrepl (chromakode.com)

Disaster Recovery, ZFS, Data Backup, Cloud Storage

32 points by aargh_aargh 196 days ago | 32 comments