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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by ncruces on Sunday October 05, 2025 @04:17PM (#45484846)
“The BBC understands that customers, through various backup technologies, external, were able to recover all lost data.”

You backup stuff. To other regions.

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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by littlestymaar on Sunday October 05, 2025 @04:42PM (#45485056)
But the Korean government didn't backup, that's the problem in the first place here…
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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by ncruces on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:34PM (#45485906)
Sure. Using a cloud can make that more convenient. But obviously not so if you then keep all your data in the same region, or even “availability-zone” (which seems to be the case for the all “lost to lightening strikes” data here).
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