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1PB data loss fears as Australian Tax Office suffers HP storage crash

• dom0 10y ago
  "Okay folks, time to put all those backup tapes in a station wagon and drive 'em here, it's restore time!" -- "Sir... we don't have tapes anymore... we had a private cloud..."
  • devoply 10y ago
    tax office. i am sure lots of Aussies are broken up over this.
    • falcolas 10y ago
      If the government shuts down due to the lack of funding, they will likely get broken up.
      • cwisecarver 10y ago
        This is how Mad Max starts.
• Tepix 10y ago
  1PB of data is hopefully hard to lose, there must be a way to recover a significant portion of it. Either way, it's a disaster for HPE's reputation.
  • spiderfarmer 10y ago
    Purging 1PB of data would take an awful lot of time.
    • taspeotis 10y ago
      You can lose unlimited amounts of data almost instantaneously though: if it's encrypted with a key, just purge the key.
      • technion 10y ago
        Or you could encrypt it to tape and get bitten by an HPE firmware bug: http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01787465&sp4ts.oid=3936307 http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr...
    • dom0 10y ago
      You don't really need to purge all of it, it can be sufficient to lose eg. crypto keys, metadata or indices to effectively shred much larger amounts of data.