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“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups(arstechnica.com)

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Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company.
UniSuper was able to recover data from backups with a different provider after the incident.
The incident highlighted the importance of having safeguards in place for cloud service providers to prevent such catastrophic events from occurring.

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Diplomjodler@lemmy.world

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6 months ago

And had you ever tested the restore process?

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elucubra@sopuli.xyz

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6 months ago

In a big iron shop?everything gets tested, dry run, etc, but shit happens, hence backups

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