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by benoau 35 days ago
It's easy until the shit hits the fan...

> In the fire, 384 battery packs were burnt, which took down 96 government systems. Whilst this is obviously still a huge loss, 95 of these had backups - but the G-drive system (government drive), used primarily by the Ministry of Personnel Management, did not.

> [...] reports estimate that 8 years worth of data was lost, and around 17% of central government officials are impacted

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/the-south-korean-gove...

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Being against on-prem just because South Korean government implemented on-prem poorly with no backup best practices and lost data one time, would be like if homo sapiens stopped using fire because a guy burned down his straw hut one time.
Yes but you're saying this guy needs to build his own house and trusting him to obey the fire and safety codes, when plenty of professionals exist that specialize in following those.