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> However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained — meaning all data has been permanently lost.

Yikes. You'd think they would at least have one redundant copy of it all.

> erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants

> 30 gigabytes of storage per person

That's 22,500 terabytes, about 50 Backblaze storage pods.

Or even just mirrored locally.

parent benoau 1 year ago

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