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arpinum • today at 5:46 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

20PB in 48 hours over a 1Tbps connection. Seems big enough for a lot of customers to recover their data or preserve backups.


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chmod775 • today at 6:01 PM

> 1Tbps

That's a pretty tall assumption when every other customer is trying to copy their own data at the same time through the same tiny pipes and off the same spinning rust.

The typical customer also doesn't do their own backups, but rather relies on the infrastructure provider (that's a major selling point after all).

If we take the damaged Amazon data center in SA or the OVH fire as data points, the timeline appears to be measured in weeks and months, rather than hours.

In any case, I doubt that in 2 days most larger companies could even figure out where their data is and develop a strategy to copy it.