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There is nothing to be done here. If the bot doesn't find one, then a human needs to find a working archive. Another bot actually helps IABot with this to provide it with archives IABot cannot find.

The arcive.org link is a good archive. Only the bot didn't find this link. Why not?

Please do not re-open tasks that have been declined. Sometimes the Wayback Machine just doesn't provide an archive. Things could have changed at the time the bot requested an archive.

The Wayback API says no snapshot is available:

./api -u "http://www.sohar.com/services/fault_tolerance/"

{"results": [{"url": "http://www.sohar.com/services/fault_tolerance/", "timestamp": "20070101", "archived_snapshots": {}}]}

That is where IABot stops. My bot GreenC picks up and does more in-depth searching but in this case it also was unable to find a snapshot. So it went looking elsewhere, and it found it at archive.is

./iabget -a searchurldata -p "urls=http://www.sohar.com/services/fault_tolerance/"

14954559 http://www.sohar.com/services/fault_tolerance/ paywalled https://archive.is/20130202231008/http://www.sohar.com/services/fault_tolerance/ 2013-02-02 23:10:08 2007-06-28 07:28:36

It added it on July 20

https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=manageurlsingle&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sohar.com%2Fservices%2Ffault_tolerance%2F

but 1 day too late since IABot changed the article on July 19.