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There was a press release directly from T-Mobile declaring that the data was gone, and it was most likely not coming back. That's as credible as any news can ge
by mustpax 17y ago
There was a press release directly from T-Mobile declaring that the data was gone, and it was most likely not coming back. That's as credible as any news can get, and no organization can be blamed for publishing that.
Also, the fact the MSFT is recovering the data does not mean that they had backups, they might be manually recovering the data from the disks instead (and given the timeframe of the recovery that sounds about right).
It's true that web journalism has a tendency to jump the gun, but not this time. This was a fully corroborated story worth publishing.
- CWuestefeld 17y agothe fact the MSFT is recovering the data does not mean that they had backups ahem. From the OP: "We have determined that the outage was caused by a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up."
- tsuraan 17y agoThat sounds a lot more like master-slave database replication than actual backups. The key difference being that you can roll back to your backups; when the slave replicates the invalid data of the master, you're hosed.
- eli 17y agoAgreed. I'm assuming a bit here, but the release makes it sound like they pieced data back together from log files, not restored to an old snapshot.