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1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 17:10:21 EST GeniusMusing
   University Loses 77 Terabytes of Valuable Supercomputer Data
   https://gizmodo.com/university-loses-valuable-supercomputer-research-after-1848286983
   
   >Kyoto University, a top research institute in Japan, recently lost a whole bunch of research after its supercomputer system accidentally wiped out a whopping 77 terabytes of data during what was supposed to be a routine backup procedure.
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   >That malfunction, which occurred sometime between Dec. 14 and Dec. 16, erased approximately 34 million files belonging to 14 different research groups that had been using the school’s supercomputing system. The university operates Hewlett Packard Cray computing systems and a DataDirect ExaScaler storage system—the likes of which can be utilized by research teams for various purposes.
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   >It’s unclear what kind of files were specifically deleted or what caused the actual malfunction, though the school has said that the work of at least four different groups will not be able to be restored.
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   So how is your day going?
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 17:15:02 EST lnxw48a1

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      @geniusmusing Wow!
      
      With that much data, I guess they couldn’t have off-site media with an older backup to do a restore from.
      
      That’s a really bad thing to happen to them.