When the economy turned down and credit became harder to find, many companies suddenly called on their back-up facility.
The Bank of New York discovered it had been unwise to keep its main back-up facility only two blocks from its head office.
The originator's dangerous creation while ostensibly wiped was always stored somewhere on the computer's hard disc, and had been mirrored by some digital back-up facility.
A back-up facility had been established 50 miles away, in central New Jersey, and when Mr Chung arrived on September 13th to see what was left of the business, every record and every research note was found meticulously preserved.
That will mean any company without a back-up facility may struggle to raise new loans.Luckily, most companies are not as exposed as they were when the dotcom bubble burst.
In contrast to 2009, nearly all Greek government debt that is scheduled to be repaid in the near future has an ESM back-up facility to refinance on highly concessional terms — including very low interest rates, generous grace periods and contractually agreed-upon maturities of up to almost 50 years.
As that happens, seeds will be sent to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a back-up facility in Norway (Science, 23 June 2006, p. 1730).
Given how crucial the NOC is, Network Ops can run on its own backup power for up to 10 hours to allow for a back-up facility to take over should there be disruption at the Willis Tower.
The randomisation service (website with telephone back-up facility) will request details of the baby and, if eligible, will provide a random allocation to one of the study groups, either "early" or "late" commencement of enteral feeds.
However, experiments have shown that navigation locks may constitute a significant back-up facility, or even a useful alternative to the construction of a fish pass at existing sites, providing that their operation is adapted to fish passage.
In New York, back-up facilities are now being placed in New Jersey or even farther afield.
