Fire Has Destroyed OVH’s Strasbourg Data Center (SBG2)

that why you ALWAYS need an offsite backup. In cases like these.
I am not trying to be rude but i just do not understand why people do not implement a off side backup space/server in cases like these where the hole datacenter get to be toast. And (as far as i know) every admin knows a off side backup is not optional thing but an requirement if you want to say you have an backup system in place. Since only local backups are no backups. (And this instance exactly proves why.)

With that said, my heard goes out to everyone affected and i hope your loses are not to big to handle.
 
I saw some desperate tweets from people asking if there is any chance there is data left... imagine working on your business for years and everything is gone.....?

This is so important to have setup your backups correctly. And indeed... off-site. Some major cloud providers provide backups / snapshots that are stored in the same building. And then a fire comes along and everything is gone. Yes, a small chance, but it happens, just as today.
 
Erulezz said:
I saw some desperate tweets from people asking if there is any chance there is data left... imagine working on your business for years and everything is gone.....?

This is so important to have setup your backups correctly. And indeed... off-site. Some major cloud providers provide backups / snapshots that are stored in the same building. And then a fire comes along and everything is gone. Yes, a small chance, but it happens, just as today.
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I think its even safe to say that cloud providers almost only offer on-site backup. (witch is in my opinion and this case is no backup.)
I have seen maybe a handfull of providers that offer off-site backup as default or as optional addon but there extremely rare.
 
I've been making backups to my home every week or so manualy (just a personal server), though, the idea of a data centre burning completely down, scary
 
That's why we have 4 copies, one directly at server (for faster restore if user asks), one in separate server in another part of DC, and two in two different DC in different countries.
 
Thats why its important, to have always backups in other datacenters. Better 2 times. The money in backups is well spent, if the case of such an event happens...
 
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Thats why its important, to have always backups in other datacenters. Better 2 times. The money in backups is well spent, if the case of such an event happens...
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yep, nowadays backup servers very cheap. For example Hetzner 4x16tb about 80$, or 10x16tb 220$ - its nothing comparing to compensations if any disaster, or comparing to reputation lost and client lost.
 
I have to hand it to their CEO/Founder, Octave, he's been doing a wonderful job keeping people posted on his Twitter. That alone is admirable, and not something you'd get from everyone in his position.

For those impacted: I hope you get back on the road soon enough! :)
 
OYEA for those not knowing.

In that DATAcentre was also storage and server for some encrypted "criminals" ENROCHAT AND Sky ECC so on Police and and they don't comment, but that was on TV in Germany at Spiegel tv.. Or i did understand it wrong or SPiegel TV. It was in same as the Sky ECC , ENROchat part for that TV Program.

So stay away from known Datacentre's if you want to be more safe with your DATA for more normal use.

Normal is sofar i know for over 20 years now important Data center should have automatic fire-fighting equipment. They say not there uhum hard to believe if so not so good for OVH, if not why in press that there wasn't such?

So both strange things in Press ( don't know true yes or no) but if true one or both not so good ?

Eines sei aber klar, so Le Journal du net, nämlich die Tatsache, dass es dort keine automatischen Löschvorrichtungen gegeben habe. So waren in den Straßburger Datenzentren weder eine Sprinkleranlage noch ein Hochdruckzerstäuber bzw. ein System mit inertem Gas zur Unterdrückung des Feuers installiert gewesen.
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What I found disturbing, was, the UPS was serviced the day earlier...... Moreover, the fact it isn't in its own concrete building! I mean, seriously? I know that DC was built years ago but come on, a UPS near a bunch of servers?
 
No i did mean known for having customers that are not so legal with data, content and communication purposes.

You can try some lookups on ip and asa nr's , also follow press, or look in your logs where spam / bot attacks are comming from. REPUTATION is the word to look for.
But if you know such communication ( should) is mostly used by criminals , you know where the servers are, then i would not be happy if that was in same datacenter as we have our ..

In Holland is also one very BIG one, where ..
 
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