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See https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/03/17/ovh_restoration_update/

"Promises free backup of everything, forever, because some customers assumed that's what clouds do"

Does this effect us? How?

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RhinosF1 triaged this task as Normal priority.Mar 17 2021, 07:25
RhinosF1 created this task.

As far as I know, we have never been under the impression that there's some sort of "free backup of everything" and our backup policy has always been Bacula (which of course is very flawed atm)

As far as I know, we have never been under the impression that there's some sort of "free backup of everything"

The policy was only announced last night. As far as I can tell it's for everyone but it's post fire (https://mobile.twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1371934994751500288)

and our backup policy has always been Bacula (which of course is very flawed atm)

I know

John subscribed.

We maintain our own backups infrastructure to ensure a continuity of service can maintain and a peace of mind for ourselves. Any external provisions by data centres we use would have no effect on us in practical terms.

Thanks @John. I wasn't sure whether we'd care but I didn't see the point in not mentioning as it's not my job to work that out.