[HN Gopher] WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
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       WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
        
       Author : bjelkeman-again
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2021-06-24 22:30 UTC (29 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | haswell wrote:
       | Very interested to see what the root cause ends up being - this
       | is mind bogglingly bad.
       | 
       | I run a FreeNAS setup at home on an HP MicroServer. From time to
       | time, I lament the amount of time I've spent over the years
       | maintaining it, and after a recent drive failure (and wishing for
       | more performance), I started considering consumer options like
       | Synology/Qnap.
       | 
       | Articles like this always give me pause, and remind me why I
       | invest the time I do to maintain my own thing. I'd rather fuck
       | something up myself than fall victim to an issue like this, and
       | the time spent setting it up likely pales in comparison to
       | dealing with data recovery.
        
         | TheGuyWhoCodes wrote:
         | Qnap had a lot of security issues in the past, like unpatched
         | RCE and backdoors I wouldn't recommend (and never ever use qnap
         | cloud or upnp) as it seems they don't really do a good job on
         | software QA or penetration testing or security audits.
         | 
         | Hardware is fine but it's much more expensive than just
         | building it yourself.
        
       | romwell wrote:
       | There are two kinds of users: those who back up their data, and
       | those who haven't experienced a data loss yet.
       | 
       | This is your daily reminder that anything that's connected is
       | _not a backup_.
       | 
       | Yes, that includes the hard drive in your machine. For that
       | matter, RAID is not a backup solution.
       | 
       | Yes, that includes cloud sync (Dropbox/OneDrive/GDrive/etc) that
       | propagates changes automatically. That's not backup.
       | 
       | And that includes WD My Book, as it (unsurprisingly) turns out.
       | 
       | Take this as a PSA.
       | 
       | If you want to know more: http://www.taobackup.com/
        
         | SAI_Peregrinus wrote:
         | A Copy-On-Write Append-Only system CAN be a backup, even if
         | connected. But that takes a lot more storage space, so it's
         | more expensive.
        
       | robotnikman wrote:
       | Sounds like its affecting people using the My Book live service
       | to access it over the internet
       | 
       | Just wow though... Hopefully its not actually doing something
       | like overwriting the data with random bits, the data might still
       | be recoverable otherwise
        
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