South Korea Data Center Fire

the korean government lost all of its data, because it put all of its servers in one physical location with no backups HOME > NEWS > THE MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS CHANNEL 858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire Destroyed drive wasn't backed up, officials say October 06 By: Matthew Gooding Have your say South Korea's government may have permanently lost 858TB of information after a crucial hard drive was destroyed in a fire at a data center in Daejeon. As reported by DCD, a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center, located in the city of Daejeon, on September 26, has caused havoc for government services in Korea. Goodbye G-Drive? Work to restore the data center is ongoing, but officials fear data stored on the government's G-Drive may be gone for good. G-Drive, which stands for Government Drive and is not a Google product, was used by government staff to keep documents and other files. Each worker was allocated 30GB of space.

A screenshot shows a post about the South Korean government losing its data after placing its servers in one location without backups, alongside a news article about a data-center fire in Daejeon. The joke is the absurdly catastrophic consequence of poor infrastructure and backup planning, making it useful as a reaction to institutional incompetence or a preventable disaster.

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