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cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months agoThose “Don’t delete, overwrite” reddit tools have existed for a long time, do you really believe reddit didn’t take at least one complete db snapshot before the whole API shenanigans? They wouldn’t have multiple complete backups of the supposedly “very valuable” data?
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Do you have any idea how much space energy maintenance and a plethora of other items it would take to be backing up every comment and post on the site?
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, and if said data is worth it, (or at least in the mind of whatever executive is in charge of such a decision at least or Spez himself) they would absolutely spend the money to store at least one complete backup. They’re mostly not doing monthly backups or whatever, but at least one prior to a major policy change announcement that they knew would piss off a lot of people is reasonable.
You’re thinking too logically here, to whatever executive (s) are in charge and probably Spez himself, data = AI = $$$, Lots of data = AI = $$$$$ someone along the lines went “Our users will probably be pissed and start fucking with their profiles, IT backup all the things” and IT/infra engineers probably went (Just like you) that’s going to be a LOT of data and cost" and then that same exec probably went “Idgaf, you’re just some engineer, you don’t how much value it has on the markettttt!! So do it”
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Again, I’ll believe it when I see it, you didn’t respond to any of the technical reasons I specifically gave you to explain why it’s highly unlikely if not impossible except to basically state
“You’re just wrong, they would just make this happen because they want lots of money.”
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s because the technical reasons ultimately don’t matter, they’re expensive but not insurmountable to a company.
If you had to take a backup of a massive system across multiple regions and maybe have to hire an entire engineering team to do it at a total cost of 200 Million, and an additional annual cost of 50 million to maintain it, but said backup of the data was/would be worth 500+ million dollars would you not do it?
bahbah23@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Backing up all the data is just good disaster recovery. I don’t have any insider information either, but I would be more surprised if they don’t have at least one off site backup of everything ever on the site. At least anything textual, but probably media as well
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 6 months ago
“Backing up everything is good disaster recovery”