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Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

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Re: Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

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Post by VeninVidiaVicii »

zigzag312 wrote: post #20
pestaa wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been putting off a cloud to cloud migration, but apparently it can be done in hours?

You can use accelerants to speed up migration

The egress cost is gonna be a doozie though!

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Post by lysace »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #19

> all documents be stored exclusively on G-Drive Does G-Drive mean Google Drive, or "the drive you see as G:"? If this is Google Drive, what they had locally were just pointers (for native Google Drive docs), or synchronized documents. If this means the letter a network disk storage system was mapped to, this is a weird way of presenting the problem (I am typing on the black keyboard and the wooden table, so that you…

The name G-Drive is said to be derived from the word ‘government’.

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Post by prmph »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #19

> all documents be stored exclusively on G-Drive Does G-Drive mean Google Drive, or "the drive you see as G:"? If this is Google Drive, what they had locally were just pointers (for native Google Drive docs), or synchronized documents. If this means the letter a network disk storage system was mapped to, this is a weird way of presenting the problem (I am typing on the black keyboard and the wooden table, so that you…

G-drive was simply the name of the storage system

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Post by fredoralive »

mrbluecoat wrote: post #11
Titan2189 wrote: post #6

Surely there must be something that's missing in translation? This feels like it simply can't be right.

I agree. No automated fire suppression system for critical infrastructure with no backup?

That may not be a perfect answer. One issue with fire suppression systems and spinning rust drives is that the pressure change etc. from the system can also ‘suppress’ the glass platters in drives as well.

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Post by dardeaup »

dang wrote: post #82

[stub for offtopicness]

They might be singing this song now. (To the tune of 'Yesterday' from the Beatles).

    Yesterday,
    All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
    Now my database has gone away.
    Oh I believe in yesterday.

    Suddenly,
    There’s not half the files there used to be,
    And there’s a deadline
    hanging over me.
    The system crashed so suddenly.

    I pushed something wrong
    What it was I could not say.
    Now my data’s gone
    and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

    Yesterday,
    The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
    Thought all my data was here to stay,
    Now I believe in yesterday.
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