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T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Backups all tied to the same Google account that got mistakenly terminated, and automation did the rest?

It didn’t matter that they might have had backups on different services, since it was all centralised through Google, it was all blown away simultaneously.

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ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

UniSuper was able to recover data from backups with a different provider after the incident.

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erwan@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s weird that backups got deleted immediately. I would imagine they get marked for deletion but really deleted something like a month later to prevent this kind of issue.

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- Hootz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s when accounts are closed or payments missed, I think in this case they just deleted the sub itself which just bypassed everything for instant deletion.
  
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