• nfh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Why not both? Alerting to find issues quickly, a bit of extra storage so you have more options available in case of an outage, and maybe some redundancy for good measure.

      • RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        A system this critical is on a SAN, if you’re properly alerting adding a bit more storage space is a 5 minute task.

        It should also have a DR solution, yes.

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      1 year ago

      There’s cases where disk fills up quicker than one can reasonably react, even if alerts are in place. And sometimes culprit is something you can’t just go and kill.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Had an issue like that a few years back. A stand alone device that was filling up quickly. The poorly designed device could only be flushed via USB sticks. I told them that they had to do it weekly. Guess what they didn’t do. Looking back I should have made it alarm and flash once a week on a timer.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of companies have minimal alerting or no alerting at all. It’s kind of wild. I literally have better alerting in my home setup than many companies do lol