Ask HN: Is there a data loss bug lurking in MS365 backup solutions?
It sounds crazy, and maybe I'm just doing something dumb, but I've seen a similar issue in two different MS365 backup products this year. I can't reproduce it reliably, but feel like there could be a serious issue, even though I can't prove it. My issue is specific to OneDrive. When I reconcile a backup set against live data, files are missing. I've had it happen with both Veeam Backup for MS365 and Synology Active Backup for MS365. Neither system reports any issues when backups run. I don't know the cause and I can't reproduce it, but it happens consistently for at least one of my tenants and seems to get worse over time. I've seen the issue on more than one tenant, so I don't think it's anything tenant specific and the only (untenable) solution I've come up with is to restart the backup from scratch. The tenant that has the most is
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It sounds crazy, and maybe I'm just doing something dumb, but I've seen a similar issue in two different MS365 backup products this year. I can't reproduce it reliably, but feel like there could be a serious issue, even though I can't prove it. My issue is spe
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- ryan87
- Ended
- 2023
- Source
- hackernews