Kyiv’s HUR Cyber Corps attacked Russia’s North Caucasus University, destroying over 150 terabytes of data and weakening the training of technical specialists for Moscow’s military.
    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I work with huge data pools like this and IDK what your backups look like, this is going to cause a massive issue. Even with my crazy fast network with fiber channel connections, it still takes lots of time to move a TB of data. And unless its on tape or in a secured space, it probably cant be trusted.

      This was massive. Glory to Ukraine!

      • psud@aussie.zone
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        1 month ago

        My giant workplace had a data problem and had to restore from tape. We had a week off and things weren’t all back and working for months

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      1 month ago

      I have no idea what is or isn’t a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC up by a few tens of thousand times, but surely it depends on what data was attacked? Like promotional / staff training content that’s largely in video form would be a lot of space with very little consequence, but 150 TB of student records and research data that’s all just databases would be a fucktonne of important stuff gone

        • Skua@kbin.earth
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          1 month ago

          I didn’t say anything about how much storage I have on my PC? I just said my only point of reference is my personal hard drive scaled up by that number, not how that actually compared to the 150 TB number. I’ve got 2 TB on my PC, but it’s only about a quarter full and a substantial chunk of that is games anyway. All my work and personal projects take up less space due to just being the kind of thing that doesn’t need a big file to store

          • credo@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 month ago

            But you did.

            1. You quantified 150TB as a “fucktonne” of important data. I’m assuming metric fucktonne here.
            2. You specified a lot in relation to a few tens of thousand (i.e. at least 30,000) times what you have on your PC
            3. 1 fucktonne > a lot

            150 TB / 30,000 = 5 GB

            There is more involved in the formal proof, but I think that’s a good summary of the facts.

            • Skua@kbin.earth
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              1 month ago

              I said it’s a fucktonne of data gone if it’s data that is relatively small in terms of file size per amount of information stored. If I lose a million words of a novel I’m writing I’m going to call that a huge amount of stuff lost even though the file size is probably somewhere around a megabyte. I did not at any point comment on whether or not 150 TB is a lot of storage for an organisation like a university in and of itself; the bit about my point of reference was specifically to illustrate that I have no idea if it is or not

    • object [Object]
      2·
      1 month ago

      When I was in school we had 1tb onedrive subscriptions provided by the school for about 3k people not including teachers. 150tb does seem quite small unless each student only gets 250gb or 500gb of storage

      • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 month ago

        When I was in school, back in the day, we had about 10 GB of storage for ~10,000 students.

        We allowed 100 MB per student, but didn’t have even remotely enough space for them all to use that much. Probably 50-60% never even logged in.

        Yes we backed it up to tape and could restore it as needed.