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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by toyg on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:43AM (#13539722)
it is also very, very risky from a liability perspective, both for insurance purposes and third-party indemnification. That's why most companies will keep as silent as possible.
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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by michaelt on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:53AM (#13540297)
I've never heard of anyone successfully suing AWS/Google/Azure over lost data or downtime.

And presumably even if your notes are kept private, it'll still come out in discovery if you end up in court?

What are the risks here? I'd be interested to learn more.

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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by toyg on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:41AM (#13541018)
> I've never heard of anyone successfully suing AWS/Google/Azure over lost data

Those companies have huge legal departments writing iron-clad contracts and stocking a lot of very sharp knives for any such eventuality. Smaller companies make for much easier targets.

> even if your notes are kept private, it'll still come out in discovery

Those notes might have been lost by then - that is, if their existence at any given time is even known. It is perfectly reasonable for people working quickly after an outage, to not actually write down every step or observation they make.

> What are the risks here?

Not prison, but you might be forced to pay a bunch if someone manages to get a ruling against you for negligence or the likes.

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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by korzun on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:09PM (#13542521)
> I've never heard of anyone successfully suing AWS/Google/Azure over lost data or downtime.

Doesn't mean it never happens.

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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by chiefalchemist on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:09PM (#13547475)
Imagine how deep their pockets are. Now imagine how deep your pockets would need to be to go toe to toe with them.

Sure plenty of uber larges Incs are "in the cloud" but with mission critical (read: high value worth sueing over) applications and data? That's a pretty small universe.

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