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repeat after me:
multiple copies; multiple locations; multiple formats.
Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
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#32I'm sure they had dozens of process heavy cybersecurity committees producing hundreds if not thousands of powerpoints and word documents outlining procedures and best practices over the last decade. There is this weird divide between the certified class of non-technical consultants and actual overworked and pushed to corner cut techs.
The data seems secure. No cyberthreat actors can access it now. Effective access control: check.
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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-a…
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#34> However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained — meaning all data has been permanently lost. Yikes. You'd think they would at least have one redundant copy of it all. > erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants > 30 gigabytes of storage per person That's 22,500 terabytes, about 50 Backblaze storage pods. Or even just mir…
It's even worse. According to other articles [1], the total data of "G drive" was 858 TB. It's almost farcical to calculate, but AWS S3 has pricing of about $0.023/GB/month, which means the South Korean government could have reliable multi-storage backup of the whole data at about $20k/month. Or about $900/month if they opted for "Glacier deep archive" tier ($0.00099/GB/month). They did have backup of the data ... in…
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#35Saw a few days ago that the application site for the GKS, the most important scholarship for international students in Korea, went offline for multiple days, surprising to hear that they really lost all of the data though. Great opportunity to build a better website now?
But yeah it's a big problem in Korea right now, lots of important information just vanished, many are talking about it.
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I thought clouds could not burn (:
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Good example of a Technology trap
Re: Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
#39> However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained — meaning all data has been permanently lost. Yikes. You'd think they would at least have one redundant copy of it all. > erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants > 30 gigabytes of storage per person That's 22,500 terabytes, about 50 Backblaze storage pods. Or even just mir…
It's even worse. According to other articles [1], the total data of "G drive" was 858 TB. It's almost farcical to calculate, but AWS S3 has pricing of about $0.023/GB/month, which means the South Korean government could have reliable multi-storage backup of the whole data at about $20k/month. Or about $900/month if they opted for "Glacier deep archive" tier ($0.00099/GB/month). They did have backup of the data ... in…
Couldn’t even be bothered to do a basic 3-2-1! Wow