Earlier quoted context omitted.
The name G-Drive is said to be derived from the word ‘government’.
It's now derived from the word 'gone'
'Gone' up in smoke
Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
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#62Some more details in this article: https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFS...
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#63Surely there must be something that's missing in translation? This feels like it simply can't be right.
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#64[stub for offtopicness]
Yikes. That is a nightmare scenario.
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#65Saw 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.
Must have been a program without much trickle down into gov tech
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#66I'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.
Ironically many of those documents for procedures probably lived on that drive...
You jest, but I once had a client who's IaC provisioning code was - you guessed it - stored on the very infrastructure which got destroyed.
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#68> The Interior Ministry explained that while most systems at the Daejeon data center are backed up daily to separate equipment within the same center and to a physically remote backup facility, the G-Drive’s structure did not allow for external backups.
This is why I don't really want to run my own cloud :)
Actually testing the backups is boring.
That said, ones the flames are out, they might actually be able to recover some of it.
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#69what's the point of a storage system with no back up?