G-Drive Fire Destroys 125,000 Officials' Data

https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFSXMLNCFPIEGWKZF3BOQ3M/

Note: G-drive is a South Korean government file server.

Which is worse: single site backup or calling it a Gdrive?

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stuner@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 320d (9 replies)

The G-Drive couldn’t have a backup system due to its large capacity

Peak competence there.

napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 320d (8 replies)

And it's less than a petabyte. With something like B2 it only costs about 5k.

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 319d (7 replies)

Per year?

napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 319d (6 replies)

nope.

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 319d (5 replies)

One time then? There are backup services that actually charge a single amount? An amount that also beats consumer hdds by quite a bit?
Do they put it on tape once and store it in some warehouse until you pay to access it?

napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 319d (4 replies)

oh you mean the cloud price, that's per month.

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 319d (3 replies)

5k/month? That’s a whole lot. Probably not much when you have 100k people, but still.
I could easily set up a PB server with raid for half a years worth of that. Throw a second one in for another half a year at a different location, heck add a third. Were is this money going?

icelimit@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 318d

Insurance, salaries, profit margins.

pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 318d

So, I wonder which single-copy records needed to be 'accidentally' lost in this fire.