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This HPE software update accidentally wiped 77TB of data:
We covered this story here University Loses Valuable Supercomputer Research After Backup Error Wipes 77 Terabytes of Data. I, like some others, suspected finger trouble on the part of those doing the backup, but the company writing the sofware have put their hands up and taken responsibility.
A flawed update sent out by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) resulted in the loss of 77TB of critical research data at Kyoto University, the company has admitted.
HPE recently issued a software update that broke a program deleting old log files, and instead of just deleting those (which would still have a backup copy stored in a high-capacity storage system), it deleted pretty much everything, including files in the backup system, Tom's Hardware reported.
As a result, some 34 million files, generated by 14 different research groups, from December 14 to December 16, were permanently lost.
In a press release, issued in Japanese, HPE took full responsibility for the disastrous mishap.
(Score: 5, Informative) by epitaxial on Wednesday January 05 2022, @02:46PM (3 children)
From the same people who brought you drives that shit the bed when they roll over 32768 hours. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/hp-warns-that-some-ssd-drives-will-fail-at-32-768-hours-of-use/ [bleepingcomputer.com]
(Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday January 05 2022, @05:59PM (2 children)
So basically, HPE is short for Huge Problems Expected?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 05 2022, @10:59PM
Or perhaps High Performance Erasure
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 07 2022, @09:33AM
Around here, we say it stands for "High Priced Equipment" because they are almost always in the top 2 for hardware cost when bidding.