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

(South Korea) NIRS fire destroys 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

However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained

I’m equal parts exasperated and unsurprised because “automatic backups” were 100% part of the sales pitch to move everything to the cloud

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Just fyi, I think you mean exasperated- exacerbated means worsened/increased

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This is actually kinda crazy. It just goes to show how a lot of infrastructure we take for granted is a lot more fragile than one would believe. Kinda concerning. At least this isn’t technically critical infrastructure, I guess?

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it should be considered ‘critical’ infrastructure tho not too much. all sorts of gov services were down because of this lol, including texting/video calls (voice calls ok) to 119 (911 equivalent).

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Whaaaaat. Unexpected fallout indeed. What a mess…

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