A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.
Always have two backups in different places than the original. If not, the least you can do is have one backup copy. How does the government don’t have such thing?
I have one backup but keep legacy things so that in a massive disaster I still have archives that have some of my important long term type documents. So figure one up to date backup and in a disaster I have stuff from last year.
Always have two backups in different places than the original. If not, the least you can do is have one backup copy. How does the government don’t have such thing?
Government people get jobs by schmoozing and making deals, not by merit or skill.
Pournelle’s Law always seems relevant.
Ooh, ooh! I’m in that law! I’m in the (to paraphrase) “competent and devoted to the goal but unempowered” group!
sounds like you are suggesting that in private companys jobs are distributed by merit and skills lol
No.
But it does give more options to work around or not support those entities since they don’t have as much direct authority.
I have one backup but keep legacy things so that in a massive disaster I still have archives that have some of my important long term type documents. So figure one up to date backup and in a disaster I have stuff from last year.