OVH says it doesn’t hold backups for some systems affected by data center fire
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AsOVHmoves towards getting its data centers, one of which suffered amajor firelast week, back up and running, it turns out that not all of the housed data with theweb hostingprovider is recoverable.
The recent disastrous incident at the Strasbourg facilities of Europe’s largesthosting providerwhich is also the third-largest globally, knocked several popular websites and online services offline.
OVH CEO Octave Klabaposted a video messageoutlining his team’s efforts to get thedata centersback online, and the company also put up awebpagedetailing the status and the backups of all the services offered by the data centers. However it appears that along with several of the services, quite a few of the internal backups are also non-recoverable.
Long road to recovery
In addition to the backups marked as non-recoverable, the page warns that there is a possibility that some of the services listed as recoverable cannot eventually be recovered, due to what it describes as an “exceptional situation.”
Furthermore, several services are still under-investigation and might increment the list of non-recoverables.
The Registerhas collated a list of the services that are non-recoverable, after perusing through the status page. These include Plesk, Datastore, Virtual private servers in some OpenStack zones, and more.
Klaba has been continuously tweeting about the status of the recovery and restart operations. As per his latest tweets, OVH has a team of 60 people working around the clock in shifts to facilitate the restart operations, including the installation of over 3,500 new servers and almost 2,000 terabytes of storage, that have been delivered to the site.
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Via:The Register
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