Backups Define Digital State Capacity

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.