South Korea’s NIRS fire appears to have erased the government’s shared G‑Drive—858TB—because it had no backup, reportedly deemed 'too large' to duplicate. When governments centralize working files without offsite/offline redundancy, a single incident can stall ministries. Basic 3‑2‑1 backup and disaster‑recovery standards should be mandatory for public systems.
— It reframes state capacity in the digital era as a resilience problem, pressing governments to codify offsite and offline backups as critical‑infrastructure policy.
EditorDavid
2025.11.29
62% relevant
The article reports a datacenter outage that affected most FSF services and required community and tech‑team recovery; this concretely exemplifies how lack of resilient backups and hosting arrangements can interrupt public‑good digital infrastructure and why backup/resilience is a governance issue.
msmash
2025.10.08
100% relevant
NIRS officials say the G‑Drive was one of 96 systems destroyed and lacked any backup due to its 'large capacity,' leaving some ministries at a standstill.
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