[183233] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cloud backups versus lightning strikes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Aug 20 03:16:53 2015
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From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:16:57 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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My read on the situation is Yet Another Intermediate Cacheing Fail in storag=
e, a well known problem. Yes, do a pull the power test on your storage so y=
ou KNOW what's committed...
George William Herbert
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> On Aug 19, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
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> As the saying goes, cloud computing is just someone else's computer. Alway=
s backup your cloud backups... in your backup.
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> Google's spokesperson used the percentage statistic to avoid how
> much data was lost. Other cloud providers have also lost customer
> data due to various problems. While a well-run cloud service provider
> is more reliable than keeping data under your mattress (just like a well-r=
un bank is better than keeping cash under your mattress), its
> not magic.
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> Nature is still more powerful than even Google.
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> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33989384
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> Google says data has been wiped from discs at one of its data centres in B=
elgium - after it was struck by lightning four times.
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> Some people have permanently lost access to their files as a result.
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