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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 07 2022, @09:44AM
I had experience when working on a project with free electron laser our team got four nights to use the beam and boy it would be a shame to loose data from very expensive research equipment if some bug would wipe out our data. LHC at CERN maitenance is $3000000 a day on average, so two days might be very costly at research institutions.