Is your data safe at google?

[foxidrive]

Lightning struck a Google data center in Belgium four times in rapid succession last week, permanently erasing a small amount of users' data from the cloud. The affected disks were part of Google Computer Engine (GCE), a utility that lets people run virtual computers in the cloud on Google's servers. Despite the uncontrollable nature of the incident, Google has accepted full responsibility for the blackout and promises to upgrade its data center storage hardware, increasing its resilience against power outages.

Oops.

 

[misi]

Oops.

Lucky me. I don't have any data with them.

 

[Megabyte]

Didn't the lightning come from the cloud? ;-)

 

[foxidrive]

Didn't the lightning come from the cloud? ;-)

“GCE instances and Persistent Disks within a zone exist in a single Google data center and are therefore unavoidably vulnerable to data center-scale disasters.”

So data is not spread around (backed up offsite). Norty google for not telling people to backup their stuff for themselves.