Comment by anarcat
6 years ago
I don't, actually, expect them to do so. But even if I would, and Gandi, here, were doing backups and replications, no one is immune from errors and catastrophes.
Pretending that the cloud is permanent in infallible is extremely dangerous. I would seriously question the competence of any sysadmin relying on this as a base principle.
Sure, they screwed up, but this stuff happens. We should actually be happy it happens "only" on a "small-ish" provider like Gandi and not an entire AZ at Amazon.
Can't wait for that shoe to drop, I'll bring the popcorn, if there's anything left of civilization then...
> Gandi, here, were doing backups and replications
As far as I understand correctly they only made snapshots on the same machine, which is why there's trouble to begin with.
Considering they're currently "reminding" customers that backups are an industry standard right after losing data due to missing backups I wouldn't just shrug it off.
That's probably because they bought into the sales pitches of the likes of EMC. It's a nice pitch and in most of the cases it works exactly like EMC promises. Snapshots work great, data is always recovered, etc, etc, etc.
The fun, of course, starts that one time when it does not work and you realize that no one looked at the corner case that bit you.
Where does this come from?