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

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NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available

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7d ago

(South Korea) NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available

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1w ago

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

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The G-Drive has been in use since 2018, requiring government officials to store all work documents in the cloud instead of on personal computers.
It is currently working to recover alternative data using any files saved locally on personal computers within the past month, along with emails, official documents and printed records.
Imagine being the employee who voilated work policy and saved stuff locally.
- Imagine being the employee who voilated work policy and saved stuff locally.
  there's a fascinating history along these lines, both good and sad:
  https://screenrant.com/toy-story-2-movie-deleted-accident-recovered/
  https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fallout/they-told-me-to-destroy-my-backups-fallout-creator-tim-cain-says-people-high-up-at-companies-take-authority-but-no-responsibility-for-game-preservation/
Sucks for most users, but i bet there's at least one person who is like "holy fuck I'm saved!" Because now he can blame the server destruction for why he doesn't have that big project done tomorrow
- Check whether that person's hands smell of gasoline.
- Clouds, silver linings etc.
Trying to save the prior impeached president's ass.
That's gonna be an expensive lesson about the 3-2-1 strategy...
- But CDs and magnetic tapes are obsolete technology! /s
Damn isn't it a shame we lost the election results? Damn shame anyways the ballots from my district are fine.
Was it too expensive to have a backup in Busan?
I find this hard to believe honestly. how can so many people involved in the administration of this system not have some offsite backups.
dunno about this segment of the korean gov, but it just... seems implausible.
However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained — meaning all data has been permanently lost.
Why were there no backups? "Because there was a lot of data" isn't really an answer.
- "Thousands of gigabytes!"
  I wonder how much it was, and how badly it was centralised.
  
  Single NAS in a storage closet.
- … how in the… oO… but … backup strategy and… restore tests… who was in charge of the IT?!?
  
  Every single high level IT-manager I've met except one has been completely clueless about IT and only gotten the position by licking ass and promising meaningless things that sounds good to the equally clueless board or executives (like "we will use AI in over 60% of our business by the end of the year").
  When entirely predictable shit eventually hits the fan, they redirect all blame.
  The agency responsible for providing medical information over phone and the internet in Sweden kept the recorded phone conversations of patients calling them on a publicly accessible NAS in Thailand.
  
  new guy, think he said his name was Jim Kong
- It wasn’t replicated to a second physical location? Wild.
  
  and they were using a cloud, was it a primary cloud they were using inhouse?
- Not a great plan
Which Korea? Should I be celebrating or outraged?
- Well, it seems like its government doesn't know how to back up data. Which Korea does it sound like? Not the good one.

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