Comment by Nifty3929
9 days ago
~1PB of data, with ingestion at a rate of 12GB per hour, is a tiny amount of data to manage and backup properly for a developed world government. This is silly. Volume clearly should not have been a hinderance.
Backup operations are often complex and difficult - but then again it's been worked on for decades and rigorous protocols exist which can and should be adopted.
"However, due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained" ... "the G-Drive’s structure did not allow for external backups."
Clearly [in]competence was the single factor here.
This is what happens when you come up with all kind of reasons to do something yourself, which you are not qualified to do, rather than simply paying a vendor to do it for you.
> Backup operations are often complex and difficult
It quickly becomes much less so if you satisfy yourself with very crude methods.
Sure that would be an imperfect backup in many ways but any imperfect backup is always infinitely better than no backup at all.