discussion South Korea government data center fire led to 800TB of data lost

[moocow]

Oof, no back up to their own cloud infrastructure. Fire was caused by a Li battery pack and cooked the government's own source of data storage for multiple departments. The guy in charge of the data restoration apparently ALT-F4 himself.

858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire

Destroyed drive wasn't backed up, officials say

www.datacenterdynamics.com

 

[djbrad]

Always, always test your backup, do a practice restore, create a guide, as you will get a disaster / massive hack at least once in your career.

 

[Shadowarez]

wonder if this is like Samsungs higher ups with the note 7 fire bombs or the factory that made the batteries burning down shortly after the higher ups end up skydiving off tall buildings with now parachutes.