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Thanks. IMHO the greatest risk of data loss is bugs in the homegrown software and/or operator error during maintenance operations, not a natural disaster. We in
by abalone 12y ago
Thanks. IMHO the greatest risk of data loss is bugs in the homegrown software and/or operator error during maintenance operations, not a natural disaster. We infallible software engineers always underestimate that stuff, but it's usually the cause.
Also, I'm not worried. If that probability only concerns data loss on Backblaze's side, even if it's 1/10,000, then that's still not the probability of actual customer data loss. Because for that to happen there'd have to be a simultaneous loss of data on the customer side as well. That probably extends the durability considerably.
- mdaniel 12y agoWe infallible software engineers always underestimate that stuff, but it's usually the cause. My former boss used to say that 90% of all problems are cabling. His percentage may be off, but the sentiment certainly isn't.