Re: Cloud backups versus lightning strikes

2015-08-20 Thread George Herbert
My read on the situation is Yet Another Intermediate Cacheing Fail in storage, a well known problem. Yes, do a pull the power test on your storage so you KNOW what's committed... George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 19, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > As the sayin

Re: Cloud backups versus lightning strikes

2015-08-19 Thread Karl Auer
On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 11:38 +1000, Matt Palmer wrote: > Backups are never optional. Love the phrasing too - "permanently lost access to their data". Their data is not lost, not gone, not destroyed, oh no! It's still there, somewhere, but they will just never, ever be able to access it again. Mayb

Re: Cloud backups versus lightning strikes

2015-08-19 Thread Matt Palmer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:44:03PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > As the saying goes, cloud computing is just someone else's computer. Always > backup your cloud backups... in your backup. This was data loss on GCE "persistent disks" (equivalent to AWS EBS), not archival storage. Hopefully very few