[AusNOG] Solar flare

[Jason Leschnik]

For anyone interested
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-06/15/how-to-survive-a-solar-storm

It's a serious concern, we are backing up our magnetic media to
another magnetic media (Disk > Tape), it would be interesting to see
what type of protection the storage facilities use when dealing with
tape media.

I will investigate this further, although food and water is a great
idea it's also very important to bring up services such as stock
exchanges, banks, public record systems. Without these, I'd like to
see you buy food/water :)

Thanks.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:
> In the event of an 1859 type event i think your priority would be food and
> water rather then. I hope my backup ran.
>
> Matt.
>
>
>
> On 9/03/12 10:10 AM, Jason Leschnik wrote:
>>
>> _Most_ (i hope) of us are prudent with backups from Disk to Tape, in
>> the event of the 1859 solar flare occurring again would this put all
>> our data at risk?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jake Anderson<yahoo at vapourforge.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/08/2012 04:03 PM, Daniel Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well that's for that...........that part IS obvious!
>>>>
>>>> What side? What continent? Granted there is a global effect, but what
>>>> where
>>>> is it localised?
>>>>
>>>> Long since have the days been flat where the entire face of the earth
>>>> points
>>>> to the sun/is flat.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -DB
>>>
>>> The problem isn't the "impact" of the CME, that mainly makes pretty
>>> lights
>>> at the poles, its the CME pushing the earths magnetic field around.
>>> Because it wraps the whole way around the planet, interesting things can
>>> happen on the back side even after the main event seems to be over on the
>>> side facing the sun.
>>>
>>> But generally speaking the closer you are to the poles the stronger the
>>> effect.
>>> Also the longer the conductors your dealing with the stronger the effect.
>>>
>>> I think mostly we have been very lucky in the past 20 years, the sun has
>>> been unusually quiet, particularly the past 10 and the few big ones that
>>> the
>>> sun has made have missed us.
>>>
>>> Now if we have fiber to the home at least when the global technological
>>> apocalypse happens we'll all have internet (until the batteries run out)
>>> ;->
>>>
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