A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.
Too slow storage to back up? What a stupid, false reason. I assume nobody works at night. Do something else than full backups and you at least have something. A simple differential update replication would have saved them here.
Or do it by priority. Files that change often or are very important are copied fully often, maybe daily. A differential update of all files could follow daily or who knows weekly. Its the government, they should have money to add more storage, so that shouldn’t be the problem. At least some strategy to manage slow speed, instead not having ANY backup its the dumbest thing I’ve read from governments in a while.
Too slow storage to back up? What a stupid, false reason. I assume nobody works at night. Do something else than full backups and you at least have something. A simple differential update replication would have saved them here.
Or do it by priority. Files that change often or are very important are copied fully often, maybe daily. A differential update of all files could follow daily or who knows weekly. Its the government, they should have money to add more storage, so that shouldn’t be the problem. At least some strategy to manage slow speed, instead not having ANY backup its the dumbest thing I’ve read from governments in a while.