The URI (URL is a deprecated term) provided does not contain a "live" streaming video "camera" of Pine Mountain (as implied below) but it does provide a number of quite beautiful "still photographs," which are updated hourly. So far as the reply regarding my Ancestry disaster recovery and mirrored server operations text, the comments back do not reflect an understanding of anything that I said on the topic. Cheers "W. David Samuelsen" wrote: > Leverich's reply is exact what I expected to the immediate concern. > > Pine Mountain community is way up in the mountains and nested. > > http://www.frazmtn.com/pmcwebcam/last24hrs_pmc_mtpinos.html > > live camera showing the town. (I saved the url. A look tell you > why) > > By the way Ancestry.com is located in Provo, Utah . As for > mirroed site - I don't know, considering thousands of sites being > maintained independently that can be instantly mirrored by Rootsweb. > That's something the RW techs will have to answer. > > David > > "Jason M. Canon" wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I was a bit surprised by the answer to the question so my hope is that further > > clarification will help. The original question did specifically ask about > > Ancestry provisions in a manner that "assumed" a particular solution; namely > > backup power generators so it is understandable that the response only addressed > > the question. My "expectation" however was that Rootsweb had planned for any > > type of west coast disaster by having east coast, and perhaps even Canadian > > based, mirror image servers that automatically detect outages and notify > > operations to exercise alternative routing actions. IMNSHO mirrored servers are > > a much more complete, and actually less expensive alternative, to having massive > > power generators installed. So my hope is that the answer given is only a > > partial answer directed specifically to the question and is not actually > > representative of Rootsweb disaster planning and recovery. > > > > Cheers > > > > ============================== > The easiest way to stay in touch with your family and friends! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST1