- Battery fire destroys storage hardware in South Korea
- The issue has paralyzed the South Korean government.
- More than 850 TB of information has been lost forever
A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center in Daejeon, South Korea, has perfectly illustrated why we place such importance on backup services. Reports suggest that the incident was the result of a battery fire and destroyed over 858TB of data, which has now been permanently lost.
The fire burned 384 battery packs, knocking out 96 government systems. While this is obviously still a huge loss, 95 of them had backups, but the G-drive system (government drive), used primarily by the Ministry of Personnel Management, did not.
That’s exactly why we talk (probably too much) about how important it is to have the best cloud backup to take care of your data. The best advice we can offer is to use the 3-2-1 rule, which means three copies, on two types of media (cloud and hardware, for example), with one of them kept off-site.
Total loss
While there is data recovery software available, it is unlikely to be easy to recover from a loss of this magnitude. Each worker was allocated 30 GB of disk space, which, incredibly, was not backed up due to its large capacity.
The most recent data suggests that only 115 of 647 networks have been restored, making the recovery rate just 18% so far. Recovery is expected to take up to a month.
Government emails, websites and national 119 were wiped out due to the fire, with reports estimating that 8 years of data was lost and around 17% of central government officials were affected.
Departments that depend on G-drive have been significantly affected following the incident. A source from the Ministry of Personnel Management confirmed;
“Employees stored all work materials in the G-Drive and used them as needed, but now work is practically at a standstill.”
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