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ryujin470@fedia.io to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 day ago

A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke

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A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke

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ryujin470@fedia.io to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 day ago
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The second best time to back up your files is right now.
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    Why didn’t they have an offsite backup if the data was that valueable?

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      that’s gonna be an expensive backblaze account

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        yes it’s expensive. it’s also a basic requirement.

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          maybe they can do what I do, run Windows on the server so you can tell Backblaze that it’s a personal computer. Then I only have to pay a flat rate for the one computer.

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