You do know that there’s two korean countries, right?
What are you talking about? There’s one Korea and half of it is occupied by an imperialist army.
Oh, so they share their passport, their borders, their economy and so forth? Do you also believe that all countries that speak English, is the UK? or US?
You can accept or reject the claim that South Korea is an imperialist outpost of the US. I don’t care about that right now.
But you do know that nothing in OPs comment implies that the two korea’s share passports or anything like that, right? Like, come on, these are basic reading comprehension skills.
And you simply don’t get the point, that there are two “Korea” and that it would be prudent to say which one you are talking about. That’s beyond your basic comprehension skills.
Why do I have to put up with this kind of feigned ignorance after being made to look at maps that include Crimea in Ukraine for like a decade now?
Weird how there is a rising MAGA party in KR and an aligned former pm who attempted a coup. What a weird coincidence.
Even though they historically used to have a great backup system for their historians and government records.
see link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritable_Records_of_the_Joseon_Dynasty
Disaster Recovery Concepts:
- Recovery time objective (RTO): maximum time to restore system function.
- Recovery point objective (RPO): maximum age of data needed to resume operations.
- Recovery consistency objective (RCO): how many inconsistent entries are allowed in recovered data.
- Sierra Madre objective (SMO): We don’t need no stinkin’ backups.
Get disaster insurance, wait for failure, collect a big c-suite payout and move to the next company.
Everyone else gets to find new exciting jobs.
Yeah who needs proper DR. it’s not like disasters ever happen.
Wow. this is one of the biggest instances of IT incompetence that I’ve heard of in recent years. Hosting a server farm without remote backups? Sound like the London Magnetic Tape Incident.
The LMTI: One employee was sent to the other end of London with the magnetic backup tapes every day. He got money to take a taxi, but saved it and took the tube. His favourite seat was right above one of the motors, where he sat the bag with the tapes on the floor for the journey. The tapes were just stored at the destination, and not checked in any way. Guess what they learned the first time they had to rely on those tapes?
That’s really funny. It’s such a specific situation too. Almost like a comedy sketch
Imagine the reaction of the guy when he found out.
Always backup!!! From the fire, I mean, place your safety first
Perhaps contained evidence against the former PM who tried to do a military coup and this is the way of getting rid of it? Perhaps protecting co-conspirators if not the top guy.
At least they saved the Internet box. Otherwise, we’ll have to bother the elders of the Internet again.
The fire reached Big Ben?
At a sea world??!!
Too slow storage to back up? What a stupid, false reason. I assume nobody works at night. Do something else than full backups and you at least have something. A simple differential update replication would have saved them here.
Or do it by priority. Files that change often or are very important are copied fully often, maybe daily. A differential update of all files could follow daily or who knows weekly. Its the government, they should have money to add more storage, so that shouldn’t be the problem. At least some strategy to manage slow speed, instead not having ANY backup its the dumbest thing I’ve read from governments in a while.
It’s too bad it wasn’t a rain cloud or it would have destroyed the fire and not the other way around
Hmm a system that stored government documents caught fire and they have no backups? Hmm, this carries the same energy of registry offices catching fire “spontaneously” in the past.
Always have two backups in different places than the original. If not, the least you can do is have one backup copy. How does the government don’t have such thing?
I have one backup but keep legacy things so that in a massive disaster I still have archives that have some of my important long term type documents. So figure one up to date backup and in a disaster I have stuff from last year.
Government people get jobs by schmoozing and making deals, not by merit or skill.
Pournelle’s Law always seems relevant.
sounds like you are suggesting that in private companys jobs are distributed by merit and skills lol
Ooh, ooh! I’m in that law! I’m in the (to paraphrase) “competent and devoted to the goal but unempowered” group!
Korean government’s
South.
(Just in case anybody else isn’t a clairvoyant either)
I figured it had to be south, as north would definitely have backups
I’ll be honest, I assumed it was the South because I would be honestly shocked if the North ever reported anything bad happening to itself.
“Cloud storage” in the North is just a drawer full of usb sticks confiscated from people smuggling K-dramas in from the South.
The DPRK has their own intranet called kwangmyong, which needs its own storage and servers. Citizens use it regularly, access to the broader global internet however is more controlled and limited to specific jobs and positions as far as I know.
The north doesn’t need backups because errors do not happen there /s
There are no backup failures in Ba Sing Se
This is a clear example where ‘the cloud’ really is a physical place.
What else would it be? What do people think the cloud is?
For a long while, I had hoped it was at least 6 physical places, with various redundancies. A few billion small-ish servers at internet network hubs.
That or the magical floating bits that go over hackers heads in the movies. Those also look like the cloud. Not very secure, but quite convenient.
Well, a properly managed cloud storage service very much should be multiple locations with redundant copies of data lol yes. So you’re not wrong in that.
