[LINK] FLoods taking out banking infrastructure

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Brendan wrote:
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> If it is a failure of a secondary nature then so be it - "no electricity" shouldn't cut it as they should have on site generators, but perhaps a problem with connectivity to/from the site sounds more plausible?  A *DR site* which is taken out by the same flood as the primary seems to me a failure in planning. 
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It is more an issue of the scope of a DR Strategy rather 
than site. The most effective approach is to have multiple 
operational sites - that way, if one goes down the service 
is still available but at reduced capacity.

Marghanita
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