Somehow they were "appending wrong" in some way and data was useless. In think they were trying to reduce the size by aggregating a bit, but they did in a way that rendered the data useless.

Of course the CEO wanted to train models with it anyway...

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

10 years and no one bothered to pull some information at random? I mean generally companies have a schedule of assessments to ensure records. Even if it's as simple as checksum.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The thing is they had data that expected to be slightly aggregated, do not a 1:1. The problem comes when you try to use the data for analysis and realize it didn't make any sense

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I like train models

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Penny counters who don't like paying for storage

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Backups are always considered to be too expensive up until the point that not having backups becomes more expensive. This applies to redundancy of all kinds except the one that means firing employees for not setting up the other kinds.

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Even at home. I do one usb backup and one internal backup of photos, home videos and documents. I would love to make backups of other stuff, but I can replace a lot of the other crap if need be, because hard drives kinda stalled in price drops.

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Apparently someone in the South Korean goverment xD

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

The person in charge of allotting budget. "You want how many thousands for backup solutions? Here, take this flashdrive I picked up in the parking lot and use it for backups, that should be plenty enough. I mean, how many bytes can our data be? Two, three maybe?"

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago

I say that often. Especially after I forget to back something up and lose it.