Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's accountSeaJ@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.world – 428 points – 5 months agoqz.com76Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsNow I'm wondering if they can recover this from a backup or archive OR if that's going to be an awkward call to their insurance company.Well, if you bothered reading into the second paragraph, you'd have more info: UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2. So Google doesn't keep (unpaid) backups for it's clients, and the ones UniSuper paid for were deleted along with everything else. Reading an article ! How dare you sir !Ain’t nobody got time for that!Amazing how Google doesn't get product management rightOr a panicked call from their insurance company. "You have a backup, right???"It was restored a week ago. All it did was prevent people from logging into their accounts for a few days.Only because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.They're already back online, and they managed to do it without missing a pension payment.From the article, "UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2."1 more...
Now I'm wondering if they can recover this from a backup or archive OR if that's going to be an awkward call to their insurance company.Well, if you bothered reading into the second paragraph, you'd have more info: UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2. So Google doesn't keep (unpaid) backups for it's clients, and the ones UniSuper paid for were deleted along with everything else. Reading an article ! How dare you sir !Ain’t nobody got time for that!Amazing how Google doesn't get product management rightOr a panicked call from their insurance company. "You have a backup, right???"It was restored a week ago. All it did was prevent people from logging into their accounts for a few days.Only because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.They're already back online, and they managed to do it without missing a pension payment.From the article, "UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2."1 more...
Well, if you bothered reading into the second paragraph, you'd have more info: UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2. So Google doesn't keep (unpaid) backups for it's clients, and the ones UniSuper paid for were deleted along with everything else. Reading an article ! How dare you sir !Ain’t nobody got time for that!Amazing how Google doesn't get product management right
It was restored a week ago. All it did was prevent people from logging into their accounts for a few days.Only because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.
Only because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.
From the article, "UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2."
Now I'm wondering if they can recover this from a backup or archive OR if that's going to be an awkward call to their insurance company.
Well, if you bothered reading into the second paragraph, you'd have more info:
So Google doesn't keep (unpaid) backups for it's clients, and the ones UniSuper paid for were deleted along with everything else.
Reading an article ! How dare you sir !
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Amazing how Google doesn't get product management right
Or a panicked call from their insurance company. "You have a backup, right???"
It was restored a week ago. All it did was prevent people from logging into their accounts for a few days.
Only because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.
They're already back online, and they managed to do it without missing a pension payment.
From the article, "UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2."