Timeline for Would it ever be possible to restore the data currently on the internet if the internet were to totally shut down?
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| Dec 18, 2021 at 12:13 | comment | added | quarague | One should also consider the time aspect. If the internet is down for a few hours this is probably correct. If the internet and the accompanying infrastructure is down for years I don't think one could just restart. | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 3:43 | comment | added | Mark | A "black start" of the Internet would be a fair bit more difficult than just turning everything back on. There are quite a few systems that depend on other systems, and I wouldn't be surprised to find some dependency loops out there. | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 2:17 | comment | added | Sebastiaan van den Broek | Considering this would include physically going to these locations and getting (at least the local) power grid to work again, I wouldn’t consider this trivial | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 22:24 | comment | added | Postlim Fort | don't forget to restore power to those machines that mount and read/write those storage volumes. | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 17:26 | history | answered | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |