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Around here we use Slack for primary communications, Google Hangouts (or Chat or whatever they call it now) as secondary, and we keep an on-call list with phone numbers in our main Git repo, so everyone has it checked out on their laptop, so if the SHTF, we can resort to voice and/or SMS.

I remembered to publish my cell phone's real number on the on-call list rather than just my Google Voice number since if Hangouts is down, Google Voice might be too.

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Where are the tapes though? Colo on separate tectonic tape or nah?

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I think texasbigdata is talking about backup tapes and maybe mistyped tectonic plate

Backup tapes and in production servers are kept at different colocation sites to protect data from fire and other catastrophes of that level

Using colo sites on separate tectonic plates would protect you from catastrophes on a geological cataclysm level

We don't use tapes, everything we have is in the cloud, at a minimum everything is spread over multiple datacenters (AZ's in AWS parlance), important stuff is spread over multiple regions, or depending on the data, multiple cloud providers.

Last time I used tape, we used Ironmountain to haul the tapes 60 miles away which was determined to be far enough for seismic safety, but that was over a decade ago.

Thank you kind sir.

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