Their explanation for having no backups was that 858 TB of data was “due to its large capacity”. They stored eight years of data without backups. Even with systems where they had backups, it sounds like there’s no redundancy – nobody can work because the single building where all the servers are located is currently out of order.
Sounds like the acute symptoms of chronic penny-pinching when it comes to IT infrastructure. I hope they take some good lessons from it at least. Just a shame that it’s such a devastating way to learn.
Some moron deleted 75 TB of prod database the other day and sure that was catastrophic (for him, mostly) but it was backed up. We are a mid-size company, maybe a few hundred people across the country. I can’t imagine the governement of freaking Korea, land of fiber years before everyone else, running so short on storage they can’t do backups.
This shit is gonna go into It school books, like the OVH data center fire from 2018 (iirc)
Their explanation for having no backups was that 858 TB of data was “due to its large capacity”. They stored eight years of data without backups. Even with systems where they had backups, it sounds like there’s no redundancy – nobody can work because the single building where all the servers are located is currently out of order.
Sounds like the acute symptoms of chronic penny-pinching when it comes to IT infrastructure. I hope they take some good lessons from it at least. Just a shame that it’s such a devastating way to learn.
Some moron deleted 75 TB of prod database the other day and sure that was catastrophic (for him, mostly) but it was backed up. We are a mid-size company, maybe a few hundred people across the country. I can’t imagine the governement of freaking Korea, land of fiber years before everyone else, running so short on storage they can’t do backups.
This shit is gonna go into It school books, like the OVH data center fire from 2018 (iirc)