SeaJ to World NewsEnglish • 9 months agoGoogle accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's accountqz.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1444arrow-down111cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1433arrow-down1external-linkGoogle accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's accountqz.comSeaJ to World NewsEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square75fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@MrNesserlinkEnglish14•9 months agoNow I’m wondering if they can recover this from a backup or archive OR if that’s going to be an awkward call to their insurance company.
minus-square@breakingcupslinkEnglish64•9 months agoWell, if you bothered reading into the second paragraph, you’d have more info: UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2. So Google doesn’t keep (unpaid) backups for it’s clients, and the ones UniSuper paid for were deleted along with everything else.
minus-square@clutchtwopointzerolinkEnglish6•9 months agoAmazing how Google doesn’t get product management right
minus-squareRhaedaslinkfedilink11•9 months agoOr a panicked call from their insurance company. “You have a backup, right???”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•9 months agoIt was restored a week ago. All it did was prevent people from logging into their accounts for a few days.
minus-square@halcyoncmdrlinkEnglish48•9 months agoOnly because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.
minus-square@pHr34kYlinkEnglish4•9 months agoThey’re already back online, and they managed to do it without missing a pension payment.
minus-square@moduslinkEnglish2•9 months agoFrom the article, “UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2.”
Now I’m wondering if they can recover this from a backup or archive OR if that’s going to be an awkward call to their insurance company.
Well, if you bothered reading into the second paragraph, you’d have more info:
So Google doesn’t keep (unpaid) backups for it’s clients, and the ones UniSuper paid for were deleted along with everything else.
Reading an article ! How dare you sir !
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Amazing how Google doesn’t get product management right
Or a panicked call from their insurance company. “You have a backup, right???”
It was restored a week ago. All it did was prevent people from logging into their accounts for a few days.
Only because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.
They’re already back online, and they managed to do it without missing a pension payment.
From the article, “UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2.”
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