A number of user data irretrievably lost due to lightning strikes in the European data center Google. This was reported in the company newsletter published.
The incident occurred on August 13. During a thunderstorm, four electric discharge hit the data-center of Europe-West1-b, power outage occurred and while the automatic system quickly restored power servers of the data turned out to be partially lost, the other - completely.
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Specialists on the Protection against lightning fully insured against such elements electrified object as data-center, it is impossible.The most extensive network of wiring can not give a full guarantee. All the components of a data processing system are connected by wires. Lightning can strike the cord,a mile from the building,the charge will go through it and melt everything inside.And if it would have been four bits in a row, I'm not surprised that There have been some damage, - said James Wilman, an engineer from the company's data-center hardware.
“Outage responsibility lies entirely on Google and we will extract lessons from what has happened so that this will not happen again. However, for maximum data security we recommend users to create multiple copies in different local stores,” - said in a statement Google.
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