South Korean government learns the importance of backups the hard way after catastrophic fire — 858 terabytes of data goes up in magic smoke

858 terabytes is a big number for a household, but barely registers in the scale of datacenter storage, where entire ...

858TB gone forever: South Korea's data center fire shows the cost of no backups

On September 26, technicians were relocating lithium-ion batteries in the NIRS data center. Forty minutes later, the batteries exploded, causing a blazing inferno ...

Unhackable backup storage could have helped in the M&S hack case by keeping data physically offline - but it comes at a cost

Ransomware breaches fuel debate over HyperBUNKER’s costly diode-based offline backups, as experts question practicality and physical vulnerabilities.
GitHub

A proper Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables natural language interaction with MySQL databases.

Python 3.10+ MySQL Server Ollama running with Llama 3.2 model MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Windsurf, etc.) ...
IEEE

BBS: Batch-Based Snapshot for the Cloud Database Backup

Abstract: Many cloud databases provide fine-grained regular snapshots and sparsely deleted snapshots based on importance, and dynamically maintain large-scale snapshots to ensure data security and ...
GitHub

GitHub - DavidLiedle/DriftDB: DriftDB - An experimental append-only database with built-in time travel. Query any point in history, guaranteed data integrity, and immutable ...

Experimental PostgreSQL-Compatible Time-Travel Database (v0.7.3-alpha) - An ambitious temporal database project with advanced architectural designs for enterprise features. Query your data at any ...