As a sysadmin that's pretty much my worst nightmare. I really feel for those trying to pick the pieces back up again after that.
Wow. this is one of the biggest instances of IT incompetence that I've heard of in recent years. Hosting a server farm without remote backups? Sound like the London Magnetic Tape Incident.
The LMTI: One employee was sent to the other end of London with the magnetic backup tapes every day. He got money to take a taxi, but saved it and took the tube. His favourite seat was right above one of the motors, where he sat the bag with the tapes on the floor for the journey. The tapes were just stored at the destination, and not checked in any way. Guess what they learned the first time they had to rely on those tapes?
Korean government's
South.
(Just in case anybody else isn't a clairvoyant either)
Hmm a system that stored government documents caught fire and they have no backups? Hmm, this carries the same energy of registry offices catching fire "spontaneously" in the past.
Always have two backups in different places than the original. If not, the least you can do is have one backup copy. How does the government don't have such thing?
This is a clear example where 'the cloud' really is a physical place.
Perhaps contained evidence against the former PM who tried to do a military coup and this is the way of getting rid of it? Perhaps protecting co-conspirators if not the top guy.
At least they saved the Internet box. Otherwise, we'll have to bother the elders of the Internet again.
Yeah who needs proper DR. it's not like disasters ever happen.
Disaster Recovery Concepts:
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.
Even though they historically used to have a great backup system for their historians and government records.
see link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritable_Records_of_the_Joseon_Dynasty
Weird how there is a rising MAGA party in KR and an aligned former pm who attempted a coup. What a weird coincidence.
Kein Backup, kein Mitleid!
It's too bad it wasn't a rain cloud or it would have destroyed the fire and not the other way around
Always backup!!! From the fire, I mean, place your safety first
saw a sticker recently that said "there is no cloud, just other people's computers"
So this is the "maintenance" the gov services are currently having.
Great talk that touches on this from CCC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dMzlw-qSZI
TLDR it was to destroy evidence the day before a government investigation.
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