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77 terabytes of data lost! - bjcheung77 - 12-31-2021
Ouch... Wow, mistakes happen, just that it's a whopping error... what's sad is, this was to "back up" the data not to "lose information by wiping" the data. From the article, the data lost may have been for research teams... Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/university-loses-valuable-supercomputer-research-after-backup-error-wipes-77-terabytes-of-data/ar-AASi0KA?ocid=msedgntp
RE: 77 terabytes of data lost! - Thorne - 12-31-2021
(12-31-2021, 02:04 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Ouch... Wow, mistakes happen, just that it's a whopping error... what's sad is, this was to "back up" the data not to "lose information by wiping" the data. From the article, the data lost may have been for research teams... Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/university-loses-valuable-supercomputer-research-after-backup-error-wipes-77-terabytes-of-data/ar-AASi0KA?ocid=msedgntp
I feel like this is the plot of a Silicon Valley episode.
RE: 77 terabytes of data lost! - Alpha - 12-31-2021
I know this makes me a tiny bit paranoid, but my first thought was "This was not an accident."