A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too
Google cloud ceo says “it won’t happen anymore”, it’s insane that there’s the possibility of “instant delete everything”
Hardly. It’s several colocated computers/drives designed to survive major events. It’s insane to me sys admins still think their 7 year old desktop sitting in a closet offers the same level of protections.
It’s not the tools that offer protection. It’s the practices and redundancies that matter. How often are you making secondary and tertiary backups, are those backups stashed in different locations and on different media?
This business owner made the right move by not relying on a single source for backups. Too many people and small businesses don’t think like that. They assume one backup is enough.
If it’s really important, you should be following the 321 backup rule, no matter if you’re using Google cloud or the old gateway in a closet. Without multiple backups, you’re always putting your eggs in one basket. It doesn’t matter how much you trust that basket, it’s a dumb idea to only rely on one backup for anything important, even if its Google cloud or AWS.
Maybe they’re properly designed, maybe not. How can you tell?
I think they call it testing.
But unless you can see the results of their internal tests…