OVH Data Center in Strasbourg, France destroyed by fire
Perhaps they can ask China or Russia for backup copies. Or the NSA. These 3 hack everything including data capture.
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March 10, 2021, 08:21 PM
Sailor1911
A cloud of smoke!
Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
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March 10, 2021, 09:36 PM
nhtagmember
We need more like that at Google, face plant and Amazon.
Our company wanted to migrate everything to the cloud. Perfect example of why you shouldn’t.
March 10, 2021, 09:54 PM
CQB60
Amazing the lengths some folks will descend to hide their kitty porn.
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March 10, 2021, 09:56 PM
Oat_Action_Man
Knocked out some European video game servers too, it seems.
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March 10, 2021, 10:11 PM
BBMW
Cloud hosting isn't the problem. Bad disaster planning is. What happens if you self host, and your private data center burns?
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Originally posted by nhtagmember: We need more like that at Google, face plant and Amazon.
Our company wanted to migrate everything to the cloud. Perfect example of why you shouldn’t.
This message has been edited. Last edited by: BBMW, March 11, 2021 11:33 AM
March 10, 2021, 10:35 PM
SigJacket
If the customer didn’t pay for the disaster recovery data plan, or implement their own, then they just f’d themselves. OVH had the offering, not their fault the customer didn’t use it to protect themselves.
As for the shipping containers, that actually is a common footprint among Google, Facebook, and company. That’s the field replaceable unit, a container at a time. When hardware in a deployed container fails below a certain usable percentage, they just replace the whole container. But, judging from OVHs service offerings of managed bare metal, they may not be up to that level.
-- I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is.
Originally posted by BBMW: Cloud hosting isn't the problem. Bad disaster planning is.
Exactly. That's why they have recognized standards for many data centers. Such as those that host government stuff etc.
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March 11, 2021, 04:07 AM
tacfoley
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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:What data might have been there and who would benefit from its destruction?
I almost wrote, the Sovie------, but then I stopped.
But you know what I mean.
March 11, 2021, 05:20 AM
gearhounds
^^^^
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March 11, 2021, 06:03 AM
blueye
Well at least I won't be getting calls from Sammy about my car warranty for awhile.
March 11, 2021, 08:18 AM
nhtagmember
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Originally posted by radioman:
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Originally posted by BBMW: Cloud hosting isn't the problem. Bad disaster planning is.
Exactly. That's why they have recognized standards for many data centers. Such as those that host government stuff etc.
we do 3 backups on different media and one is always stored offsite
March 11, 2021, 08:36 AM
Jimbo Jones
Where was Jeff Bezos on the night in question?
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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
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Originally posted by WaterburyBob: So, who set the fire? To hide what? I'm always cynical when these kind of things happen.
My guess too.
What data might have been there and who would benefit from its destruction?
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March 11, 2021, 08:50 AM
Sig2340
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Originally posted by gearhounds: ^^^^
So, you're saying something is fishy?
Nice is overrated
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March 11, 2021, 08:55 AM
Leemur
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Originally posted by parabellum: Yeah, maybe got a thumb drive and a couple of dual-density DVDs in a drawer somewhere?
Optimus Prime was saved to a 5.25” floppy once. It could happen.
March 11, 2021, 09:43 AM
architect
Looks like when you stack shipping containers on end, they make a fine chimney! The heat plume coming out of a working data center constructed that way must be intense!
Please don't rely on cloud storage as a backup strategy unless you already have two others.
March 11, 2021, 10:50 AM
gearhounds
Video footage may be able to identify those responsible...
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March 11, 2021, 11:35 AM
BBMW
Then you're at least somewhat covered.
Don't want to pay for off site mirrored servers? This would be in addition not instead of static backups.
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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
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Originally posted by radioman:
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Originally posted by BBMW: Cloud hosting isn't the problem. Bad disaster planning is.
Exactly. That's why they have recognized standards for many data centers. Such as those that host government stuff etc.
we do 3 backups on different media and one is always stored offsite
March 11, 2021, 04:23 PM
darkest2000
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Originally posted by nhtagmember: We need more like that at Google, face plant and Amazon.
Our company wanted to migrate everything to the cloud. Perfect example of why you shouldn’t.
Yes let's let one isolated incident dictate the validity of going cloud in general....
Because keeping your data stored on a $20 hard drive that's hooked up to the office LAN somehow makes it safer and immune from building fires, natural disasters, hardware failures, power outages, loss, theft, hacking, or even coffee spills right...
March 11, 2021, 04:59 PM
Skins2881
Our fire systems would have killed all HVAC and power to the data halls and dumped massive amounts of water everywhere. It's pretty amazing that they were not able to get a hold of the situation and limit the destruction to one or two suites.
I bet you this incident is going to make me have to do additional training of some sort.
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