Literally who ever said “backups are overrated”?
The people who laid off 85% of the IT dept.
My ex company had for more than 10 years keept all the data customers shared with us. Structured and standardized, should have been easy peasy.
Somehow they were “appending wrong” in some way and data was useless. In think they were trying to reduce the size by aggregating a bit, but they did in a way that rendered the data useless.
Of course the CEO wanted to train models with it anyway…
10 years and no one bothered to pull some information at random? I mean generally companies have a schedule of assessments to ensure records. Even if it’s as simple as checksum.
The thing is they had data that expected to be slightly aggregated, do not a 1:1. The problem comes when you try to use the data for analysis and realize it didn’t make any sense
I like train models
Penny counters who don’t like paying for storage
Apparently someone in the South Korean goverment xD
I doubt anyone said it verbatim, but it happens that they’re deemed lower priority ad infinitum.
So I have lived in South Korea for 6 years now. The fact that this fire has had such a major impact is quite typical of Korean bureaucracy and tech administration. Very few backups, infrastructure held together with scotch tape and bubblegum, overworked devs and maintainers. It’s a bit sad, especially for a country that exports so many tech products.
If I had a nickel for every time someone didn’t backup their datacenter, I’d have two nickels.
Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened at least twice.
Last time we lost disks at work, there were full backups.
They were just in the same disks as the data. And because everything is abstracted two times into virtual disks on virtual machines, and containers and volumes, the people responsible for the backups didn’t even know it.
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dies after fall
Well, if that ain’t a whitewashed headline.
I collect stories like this for when I need to make a case for purchasing new gear or services.
In Lithuania, healthcare e-services went down after the basement where the servers were kept got flooded in a rainstorm. They went down for a couple of weeks.
