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		1minusp 51 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers I'd like to be able to do something similar, but the old batteries in these things seem like a point of catastrophic failure. How is that dealt with?

gunapologist99 51 days ago | [–]

Remove the batteries. Datacenters have redundant power and UPS.

jhickok 51 days ago | [–]

If it's an offsite backup, you would deal with it like you would any DR site-- either plan for yet another backup, or presume that it's unlikely that both the primary and replica would go down simultaneously and accept the risk.

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