NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available
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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.
  • JackLSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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

  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    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?

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      2 days ago

      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).