This Korean data center fire keeps getting more and more tragic. Here’s what I know, to catch you up.<li>Back in 2017, S.Korea built “G Drive” for government officials to store all their files (no relation to Google drive, the ‘G’ stands for Government)</li><li>They were told to store all their stuff in G Drive, not on their local systems.</li><li>They were concerned about battery backups causing a fire, so decided to move half the li-ion batteries to the basement.</li><li>One of the li-ion batteries exploded as it was being unplugged, setting the building on fire. Several floors of datacenter were affected.</li><li>They’ve recovered roughly a third of the data.</li><li>none of it was backed up, because 1 petabyte was “too large to back up”</li><li>In 2017, one AWS Snowmobile 18-wheeler held 100 petabytes, so “too big to back up” doesn’t make a lot of sense</li><li>125,000 government employees lost all their data</li>
This is WILD. Go to any failing mall in America and choose a retailer at random. Spencer’s Gifts? They probably do backups. Jamba Juice? Backups. The CBD vape store? Okay, maybe they don’t do backups, but everybody else does.
One of the most technologically advanced 1st world nations in the world DOESN’T BACK UP government data? I’m still floored by this.
