It’s a fairly safe bet that on any given day, at least a good dozen IT departments are trying to convince their bosses and/or users about the vital importance of backups. Unfortunately, it seems that the argument was lost in the South Korean government, as the institution has completely lost the sizable amount of 858 terabytes of data, with 0 bytes of backups.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    Not sure about that. In principle, it only takes one crazy idiot with a molotov cocktail to get rid of your datacenter, as long as the fire prevention systems are shit off.

    So let’s say, it takes two people

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      I meant the entire country purposely not having any backups for years is what would take a ton of people acting conspiratorially