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Unfortunately, for customers of this vendor, this wasnt the first failure to occur. In recent years, the same provider experienced server outages that prevented users from reaching their data for 72 hours. Customers were essentially forced to fix the problem themselves by downloading and installing new software while the data of 7,500 customers was lost altogether.
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Another provider was offline for several days when an employee accidentally deleted one of the main storage volumes during a system upgrade and then encountered problems trying to restore the data from backup. A similar company was forced to shut down suddenly following another high-profile customer data loss.
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