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shaming is easy maybe they were backing up their stuff properly, but backups were wiped as well. even if you have some fancy append-only storage someone still
by tryauuum 3y ago
shaming is easy
maybe they were backing up their stuff properly, but backups were wiped as well. even if you have some fancy append-only storage someone still has access to it and that access can be misued.
- _joel 3y ago> but backups were wiped as well Then they're not offline backups, are they? I know what you mean but backing up to a network drive with R/W is not a backup, it's a copy.
- tryauuum 3y agoThey could have wiped through other means, e.g. through ipmi. Although I don't think that was the case. More realistically, it probably boils down to money. I wonder what would be the cost of backing up everything to a competitor's cloud daily, e.g. one PB of data per day. I have no idea how much it even costs to have a 200 gigabit link to another data center.
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago> maybe they were backing up their stuff properly, but backups were wiped as well. You realize this is contradictory?
- tryauuum 3y agoI believe this is the case of "no true Scotsman". Whatever backup you propose, someone will point out that you could have done it better. You could have disconnected servers with backups from network when they are not in use. You could have hired a dedicated person whose responsibility would be to deny/delay any request from management to delete the backups. And so on.