Kyoto University IIMC 77TB loss notice (Dec 2021)

Kyoto University Institute for Information Management and Communication (IIMC), official incident notification on the loss of storage files on the supercomputer system, December 28, 2021. iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en. Claburn, T. "Kyoto University loses 77TB of supercomputer data after buggy update to HPE backup program," Data Center Dynamics, January 2022.

Key facts: Buggy HPE backup script update executed December 14-16, 2021. ~77 TB across 34 million files deleted from 14 research groups. ~28 TB across ~25 million files across four groups unrecoverable.

Use: E-0015, C-0018.

Original whitepaper reference: [29]