Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’

Re:Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient ... by atoav on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:21PM (#37422343)

In my case the data was a dummy database of more dummy users than are at our org (maybe 50% more). So once this goes to production it would likely get smaller.

The problem in this case was twofold:

- admin had the job to implement database backups. He didn't factor in backup size when allocating disk space. So this was wntirely his own fault.

- the database does store certain transactions for a certain period, so this grew initially until it it setteled at a certain level. Because the margin of storage was slim, this caused the problem

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Re:Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient ... by ilyt on Friday September 08, 2023 @11:13AM (#37434586)

...did you communicate any of that ?

Because most of our cases where that happens was either lack of planning or lack of communicating that plan. By far most common one was "neither dev nor client knows the data volume in longer period". Which is fine as long as that's also communicated, but that's also often a problem.

But I'm not denying of course that there are just shitty incompetent ops departments, just for the other customer we had dealing with ops department that had:

* backup storage (which was some remote FTPS server IIRC) provisioned so slow the backup wouldn't copy within 24 hours. And the backup size was below TB. * weeks long delays with any resize.

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