Computer maintenance workers at Kyoto University have announced that due to an apparent bug in software used to back up research data, researchers using the University’s Hewlett-Packard Cray computing system, called Lustre, have lost approximately 77 terabytes of data. The team at the University’s Institute for Information Management and Communication posted a Failure Information page detailing what is known so far about the data loss.
The team, with the University’s Information Department Information Infrastructure Division, Supercomputing, reported that files in the /LARGEO (on the DataDirect ExaScaler storage system) were lost during a system backup procedure.
