Live data from Hacker News

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

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com

51–60 of 987 posts

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

#51
post #23

> 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’.

It's now derived from the word 'gone'

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

#53
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

That's unfortunate.

No. Fortuna had nothing to do with this, this is called bad planning.

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

#56
Meanwhile, Estonia has a "data embassy" in Luxembourg: https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/data-embassy/

TL;DR: Estonia operates a Tier 4 (highest security) data center in Luxembourg with diplomatic immunity. Can actively run critical government services in real-time, not just backups.

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

#57
post #82

[stub for offtopicness]

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/113524310004145896

Copy/paste:

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

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

#58

Meanwhile, Estonia has a "data embassy" in Luxembourg: https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/data-embassy/ TL;DR: Estonia operates a Tier 4 (highest security) data center in Luxembourg with diplomatic immunity. Can actively run critical government services in real-time, not just backups.

This comment is in some way more interesting than the topic of the article.

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

#59
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-a…

For the German enjoyers among us I recommend also this old song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN5mICXIG9M
Post reply on HN