Google loses data as lightning strikes

[WYP]

Google has lost a large amount of data after lightning strikes one of its data centers in Belgium 4 times.



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[Wraith]

Read about this this morning on theregister.. all I can say is Oooops. Just glad I don't use any cloud services.

 

[Dawelio]

*Indian voice* Dis is why you shud not use claod services, it is not sife! :lol:

 

[Kushiro]

Someone must have done something very naughty

 

[yassarikhan786]

I'm surprised that some of the data is lost permanently. This is why it's important to have more than one backup location and not rely solely on cloud services.