1y ago

Ukraine’s HUR Cyber Strike Shuts Down Russian Military University, Erases 150TB of Critical Data

www.kyivpost.com

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I’m sure their backups are in as good a condition as their trucks and nuclear missiles.
- My giant workplace had a data problem and had to restore from tape. We had a week off and things weren't all back and working for months
150TB????? Holy fuck. I wonder what sort of stuff one institution even stores in 150TB of data?
- Maybe all the students shared drives? I know I had a couple hundred GB in mine.
- There are some in the datahoarder community pushing a PB.
  They mostly store Linux ISOs.
  
  how much does that kind of storage even cost. Like tens or hundrads of thousands no?
- A few seasons of TV shows.
  
  A good reason why when aquiring TV shows "completely legitimately" i always stick to 720p or 1080p if i reaaaaallly like the show.
  Hard drives are expensive
- Training videos might do it
- I've got a good 5 TB of games. It's not that crazy an amount of data.
150TB doesn't seem like a lot for a whole university. Am I missing something?
- I have no idea what is or isn't a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC up by a few tens of thousand times, but surely it depends on what data was attacked? Like promotional / staff training content that's largely in video form would be a lot of space with very little consequence, but 150 TB of student records and research data that's all just databases would be a fucktonne of important stuff gone
  
  You only have 5 GB on your PC? How do you survive?
- When I was in school we had 1tb onedrive subscriptions provided by the school for about 3k people not including teachers. 150tb does seem quite small unless each student only gets 250gb or 500gb of storage
  
  When I was in school, back in the day, we had about 10 GB of storage for ~10,000 students.
  We allowed 100 MB per student, but didn't have even remotely enough space for them all to use that much. Probably 50-60% never even logged in.
  Yes we backed it up to tape and could restore it as needed.

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