They are clouds of smoke to begin with. The smoke from the joints of those who believed that storing their data somewhere out of their control was a good idea!
They might be singing this song now. (To the tune of 'Yesterday' from the Beatles).
Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly,
There’s not half the files there used to be,
And there’s a deadline
hanging over me.
The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now my data’s gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
Thought all my data was here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/113524310004145896
Copy/paste:
7 things all kids need to hear
1 I love you
2 I'm proud of you
3 I'm sorry
4 I forgive you
5 I'm listening
6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup
7 You've got what it takes
Brilliant.
This deserves its own HN submission. I submitted it but it was flagged due to the title.
Thank you for sharing it on HN.
Technically the data is still in the cloud
I've been putting off a cloud to cloud migration, but apparently it can be done in hours?
You can use accelerants to speed up migration
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Lossy upload though
No information is lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hiding_theorem#:~:text=info...
Lossy download, no?
Unfortunately, the algorithm to unhash it is written in smoke signals
Cloud of smoke, amirite.
The cloud has materialized
Should have given him back his stapler
I don't get it. Can you please explain the reference?
It’s a reference to the movie Office Space and the Milton character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space
That's an "Office Space" reference, in which a grumpy employee burns down the IT company building.
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Or a piece of cake.
>the G-Drive’s structure did not allow for external backups.
ah the so called schrodingers drive. It's there unless you try to copy it
repeat after me:
multiple copies; multiple locations; multiple formats.
Good example of a Technology trap
They should ask if North has a backup.
Watching Mr. Robot and seeing the burned batteries the same time...
Well that works out doesn’t it? Saves them from discovery.
This is the reason the 3, 2, 1 rule for backing up exists.
We will learn nothing
Someone found the literal HCF instruction.
Yikes. That is a nightmare scenario.
Well, now they'll have to negotiate with North Korea to get these backups..
Now imagine they had a CBDC.
I thought most liberal governments gave up on those.
I seem to have misplaced my tiny violin
I thought clouds could not burn (:
They are clouds of smoke to begin with. The smoke from the joints of those who believed that storing their data somewhere out of their control was a good idea!
"The day the cloud went up in smoke"
They might be singing this song now. (To the tune of 'Yesterday' from the Beatles).
For the German enjoyers among us I recommend also this old song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN5mICXIG9M
Thanks! mmd.
No problem — I'm sure their Supremely nice Leader up north kept a backup. He's thoughtful like that...
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nice
The Egyptians send their condolences.
Has there been a more recent event, or are you referring to Alexandria?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Burning_...
the destruction of the library of alexandria is under dispute.
I think Alexandria.
touché
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Hope this happens to Altman’s data centers.
Too bad this can't happen everywhere.