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Do you guys run serious protection for your infrastructure?

 

I was reconfiguring some storage yesterday preparing for some discs upgrades (and I did not have slots on that server for more discs, so I decided to disable the SSD cache).

 

The 50gb data write dump - triggered 3 disc failures within 5 minutes, taking a Raid 6 down and destroying more than 1tb on data, mostly virtual machines. Pretty much - outside some large data stores (tick data, sql for analysis) all my small trading operation consists of.

 

Thank heaven I take backups 2x per day, every 15 minutes for very time critical things (like emails) and we had the new discs (actually SSD) already ready.

 

But that makes me wonder - how much are you guys preparing for contingencies? My background is IT, running a small IT company (not focusing on trading), so I have the whole thing totally set up (including replicating my trading machines down to my office every 30 seconds). Most traders I talk to are ignorant in this area (that reads down to "Hah? Backup? I have a good disc"). How do you deal with power outages? Internet breakdowns?

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Do you guys run serious protection for your infrastructure?

 

 

Serious protection... no. I have a UPS that has saved my bacon a couple of times. I run "shadow protect" for backups and disk imaging. Backups run every day, with disk imaging every 2 weeks. My system is dedicated solely to trading operations... there is not a lot of data created during the day... so what I do is probably overkill.

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Serious protection... no. I have a UPS that has saved my bacon a couple of times. I run "shadow protect" for backups and disk imaging. Backups run every day, with disk imaging every 2 weeks. My system is dedicated solely to trading operations... there is not a lot of data created during the day... so what I do is probably overkill.

 

That is quite serious. I have a large UPS for now (large - 10kw output for an hour), do regular backups. Just sometimes is strikes. Preparation is everything.

 

Desaster happened to me yesterday, all except possibly some emails in a spool was back this morning. Just when I wrote i used that for my first blog post on my own new trading side - Trade-Robots - Technical Risk. Are you prepared for a disaster?

 

Thank heaven I start being paranoid by now - all servers not at home are backed up every 30 seconds ;) Having good backups saved me from a lot of problems this time. Not the first time a RAID array dies ;)

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That is quite serious. I have a large UPS for now (large - 10kw output for an hour), do regular backups. Just sometimes is strikes. Preparation is everything.

 

Desaster happened to me yesterday, all except possibly some emails in a spool was back this morning. Just when I wrote i used that for my first blog post on my own new trading side - Trade-Robots - Technical Risk. Are you prepared for a disaster?

 

Thank heaven I start being paranoid by now - all servers not at home are backed up every 30 seconds ;) Having good backups saved me from a lot of problems this time. Not the first time a RAID array dies ;)

 

I can only imagine. Damn! What a nightmare. And having experienced that,I don't think you are being paranoid. I think it's taking measures against any other future happenings,which is a good thing.

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