This story is so strange to me. Apparently, the government of South Korea had the data for 2/3rds of their systems stored at one location with no backups anywhere else...
The G-Drive catastrophe: 858TB of civil servants' work files completely destroyed. Cloud storage system had no backup because officials said there were "too many small files to backup in real time". Some backup disks existed but burned in the same room.
Basic backup best practices: don't store the backup on top of the computer it's backing up...
858TB of government work files permanently lost with no backup. A government official has died. Gov admitted they miscounted affected systems by 62. Only 27% of systems restored.
But the thing is, so many records were destroyed, they might not even know what they are missing...
The government initially said 647 systems were down, then corrected today to 709. Their management system was also destroyed in the fire, so they'd been counting based on "staff memory" etc. Officials apologised for the confusion.
CBDC, digital ID programs -- this is how they will be run.