• @[email protected]
    116•1 year ago

    What’s the point of primary and secondary backups if they can be accessed with the same credentials on the same network

    • @[email protected]
      16•1 year ago

      They weren’t normally on the same network, but were accidentally put on the same network during migration.

  • @[email protected]
    58•1 year ago

    Time and time again, data hosting providers are proving that local backups not connected to the internet are way better than storing in the cloud.

    • @[email protected]
      34•1 year ago

      The 3-2-1 backup strategy: “Three copies are made of the data to be protected, the copies are stored on two different types of storage media and one copy of the data is sent off site.”

      • @CeeBee
        2•1 year ago

        How are you using that 7 port USB hub?

          • @CeeBee
            3•1 year ago

            Oh ok. So you’re using them effectively like cold storage backups? I was scared you were going to tell me that you were running an ZFS pool off a USB hub, lol.

      • @foggenbootyEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        The only downside to something like this would be electrical surges if you leave the drives plugged.

    • IWantToFuckSpez
      10•1 year ago

      Any redundant backup strategy uses both. They both have inherent data loss risks. Local backups are great, but unless you store them in a bunker they are still at risk to fire, theft, vandalism and natural disasters. A good backup strategy stores copies in at least three locations. Local, off-site and the cloud. Off-site backups are backups you can physically retrieve. Like tapes stored in a vault in another city.

  • Max_PowerEnglish
    31•1 year ago

    Now that you mention fucking incompetence, I need to verify my 3-2-1 backup strategy is correctly implemented. Thanks for the reminder, CloudNordic and AzeroCloud!

  • @IonAddisEnglish
    23•1 year ago

    Danish hosting firms CloudNordic and AzeroCloud have suffered ransomware attacks, causing the loss of the majority of customer data and forcing the hosting providers to shut down all systems, including websites, email, and customer sites.

  • DigitalDilemma
    15•1 year ago

    I feel really bad for everyone involved - customers and staff. The human cost in this is huge.

    Yes, there’s a lot of criticism of backup strategies here, but I bet most of us who deal with this professionally have knowledge of systems that would also be vulnerable to malicious attack, and that’s only the shortcomings we know about. Audits and pentesting are great, but not infallable and one tiny mistake can expose everything. If we were all as good as we think we are, ransomware wouldn’t be a thing.

    • @snailtrail
      5•1 year ago

      I think that people generally overestimate how much money tech companies like this one actually make. Their profits are tiny. A lot of the time, tech companies run on investment money, and can’t actually turn a profit. They wait for the big acquisition or IPO payday. So if you think you’re actually gonna get 100k off them, good luck. Sometimes they’re barely keeping the lights on.

  • Treczoks
    10•1 year ago

    Put all the data in the cloud, they said. It will all be save and handled by professionals!

      • exuEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        I think they’re aware of that

        Martin Haslund Johansson, the director of Azerocloud and CloudNordic, stated that he does not expect customers to be left with them when the recovery is finally completed.

        • @[email protected]
          9•1 year ago

          The customers are already lost:

          1. pay the expensive ransom, if the bad actor gives them the decryption key, customers are relieved but still pissed, will take the data and move to somewhere else with a big FO. Go out of business.

          2. don’t pay the ransom, customers are pissed and move to somewhere else with a big FO. Go out of business.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      Sounds like they had all their backups online, instead of keeping offline copies. It’s a reminder that everyone needs at least one backup that isn’t connected to any computer. It’s also a reminder that “the cloud” should not be the only place you keep your data, because hosting providers are targets for this stuff and you don’t know how careful they are.