Bug in Microsoft's StorSimple arrays can kill backups

Microsoft's warned users of its StorSimple network-attached storage devices to update them ASAP, because they might not be finishing backups. You had one job, Microsoft … one job. Now owners of the devices have an urgent and tricky job, because Microsoft says “The update is a disruptive update (requires reboot of the appliance …

[Hans 1]

Was there not another article just the other day lauding Azure backups ?

Cf title

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/09/azure_backup_upgrade/

[Pascal Monett]

It's Microsoft

Microsoft doesn't need a bug to kill your backups, it does it through sheer force of habit.

[Anonymous Coward]

To state the obvious...

1. Clearly there's no simple "backup complete / backup failed" output from the system (or else nobody is looking at it)

2. Clearly, nobody affected did any sort of trial restore, or noticed the missing files

A backup doesn't exist until it has been tested

[Terje]

Re: To state the obvious...

Point 2 not necessarily so. It might well be that no one has suffered dataloss, and that the failure was identified by someone actually doing a trial restore.

[David Austin]

Re: To state the obvious...

Going on the rather.. sparse... UI of Windows 8/10 File History, I can easily believe that Microsoft do not have a good idea of how much information is enough

[quxinot]

Re: To state the obvious...

"Going on the rather.. sparse... UI of Windows 8/10 File History, I can easily believe that Microsoft do not have a good idea of how much information is enough"

Oh, they've got plenty.

What, for customers? Don't be ridiculous.... Information is about customers now.

[Anonymous Coward]

There may be trouble ahead...

But while there's Microsoft and scheduled downtime and updates

Let's face the music and dance

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: There may be trouble ahead...

... before they ask us to pay the bill...

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: There may be trouble ahead...

Really, who doesn't like Irving Berlin?

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Let's Face The Music And Dance (1936)

[joed]

a benefit of cumulative updates or just push towards MS cloud backup

[oldcoder]

Standard Microsoft substandard software...

do half the job... sell to as many suckers as possible.

Then try to fix it.

[Oh Bother]

I dunno. This seems to perfectly sum up any service offered in the cloudy era.

[Mikel]

Microsoft knows how important backups are

As evidenced by this informative and relevant article:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/173470/Microsoft_Red_Faced_After_Massive_Sidekick_Data_Loss.html

[Mike Shea]

Mike

Storage is hard. It takes a long time to get right. There is no way around the time and pressure that is required.

[MotionCompensation]

Just upgrade to Windows 10

Microsoft will have a copy of all your data, just ask them for a copy to restore.

[StillBill]

Microsoft's success in the hardware business

After all, the only time Microsoft made a product that didn't suck was when they got into the vacuum business.

(Thank you, I am here all night - don't forget to tip your waitress)

[Oengus]

Can M$ use their connections...

Is this a situation where M$ could use their links with the NSA to retrieve your data from the NSA cache...