Facebook temporarily loses more than 10% of photos in hard drive failure
March 26, 2009 (ComputerWorld)
Popular social networking site Facebook.com admitted on a blog post in early March that a hard drive failure led to the temporary loss of 10% to 15% of its users stored photographs. According to the company, several drives failed at once during a routine upgrade.
Facebook said its users' photos are safe because it stores multiple copies of the data for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes, and it is working to make the photos affected by the system failure available again as soon as possible. The repair process involves copying large amounts of data to new drives.
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