A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.
However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained — meaning all data has been permanently lost.
Why were there no backups? “Because there was a lot of data” isn’t really an answer.
Why were there no backups? “Because there was a lot of data” isn’t really an answer.
… how in the… oO… but … backup strategy and… restore tests… who was in charge of the IT?!?
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oooh boy, you don’t happend to have a good source on that swedish thing, do you? i gotta read about that too
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“Thousands of gigabytes!”
I wonder how much it was, and how badly it was centralised.
Single NAS in a storage closet.
It wasn’t replicated to a second physical location? Wild.
and they were using a cloud, was it a primary cloud they were using inhouse?
Not a great plan