- Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company.
- UniSuper was able to recover data from backups with a different provider after the incident.
- The incident highlighted the importance of having safeguards in place for cloud service providers to prevent such catastrophic events from occurring.
Second week with this story.
Yeah it’s getting old.
reading about google fucking up and bringing other corporations down with it never gets old.
Sudar the creep will keep your nudes around for rest of eternity but can’t provide proper enterprise product…
Cheers
Reading about Google fucking up got old ten years ago.
I was gonna ask if this happened again lol
“an unprecedented sequence of events”
Yeah? It was, what’s your point?
It sounds similar to “a unscheduled pen test” and other corporate speak
“rapid unscheduled disassembly” 🙄
Boeing is opening the doors to the
futureplane mid flight
Follow the 3-2-1 rule for your important data, ideally 4-3-2 or better. Remember, if you only have one copy of your data, you actually have zero copies of your data.
what are these rules? i genuinely am not aware of them.
3 separate backups on 2 different media (ie 2 backups on 2 separate HDDs plus one on DVDs) with At least 1 offsite (ie a satellite office or your parents house for personal stuff)
cheers mate.
They’re talking like it’s some global celestial event
If you didn’t put Google’s name in there I would’ve assumed a different company facepalming. Hint: it’s the one whose name sounds like ‘unsure’.
At the end of the day… Cloud storage is just using someone else’s computer.
Imagine if YouTube lost all its videos
Always follow the 3-2-1 rule, Google. Always!
