Submitted 5 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
Second week with this story.
Yeah it’s getting old.
reading about google fucking up never gets old.
I was gonna ask if this happened again lol
“an unprecedented sequence of events”
Yeah? It was, what’s your point?
It sounds similar to “a unscheduled pen test” and other corporate speak
Sounds really dramatic in a news item though. Click bait. :)
“Unprecedented” is kinda hot right now. Tries to mitigate too much blame being heaped on: “obviously we prepare for the usual and even the unexpected, but this has literally never happened before (give us another shot pls)”.
So it’s interesting for the news that it takes on a different context when said breathlessly: “UNPRECEDENTED failure!”
They’re talking like it’s some global celestial event
Unprecedented only means there’s no precedent. This just hasn’t happened before at this scale.
I was only commenting on the phrasing. ‘unprecedented cloud event’ sounds like some global scale meteorological event.
The headline does say “Customer account” as in singular.
If you didn’t put Google’s name in there I would’ve assumed a different company facepalming. Hint: it’s the one whose name sounds like ‘unsure’.
At the end of the day… Cloud storage is just using someone else’s computer.
Imagine if YouTube lost all its videos
Always follow the 3-2-1 rule, Google. Always!
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
As the saying goes: if you only have one backup you have zero backups.
How the fuck does Google of all companies manage to accidentally delete that‽
smokinliver@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
If this is the thing I heard of a few days ago then google had multiple backups on different sites but they managed to delete all of them
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I guess they weren’t paying quite enough to have offline backups? I believe financial institutions can keep stuff stored in caves (think records of all the mortgages a bank wants to be repaid for - data loss isn’t an option).
RedditRefugee69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m betting job cuts and someone was in a hurry
T156@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
erwan@lemmy.ml 5 months 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.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
My first job was in a Big Iron shop in the late 80’s, where I was in charge of backups. We kept Three sets of backups, on two different media, one on hand, one in a different location in the main building, in a water and fireproof safe, and one offsite. We had a major failure one day, and had to do a restore.
Both inhouse copies failed to restore. Thankfully the offsite copy worked. We were in panic. That taught me to keep all my important data on three sets. As the old saying goes: Data loss is not an if question, but a when question. Also, remember that “the cloud” simply means someone else’s remote servers over which you have no control.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And had you ever tested the restore process?
Hootz@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Everything is tied to the subscriptions, they deleted the sub and that automatically deleted all backups.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That sounds like a pretty trashy backup scheme. I don’t care what your subscription status is I’m keeping those backups until retension’s over.
capital@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Very stupid.
AWS has a holding period after account deletion where nothing is actually deleted, just inaccessible and access can be regained without data loss.
Since first hearing about this I’m wondering how TF Google Cloud doesn’t have a similar SOP.