Flickr Has Temporary Storage Glitch

By Jimmy Daniels of The Grid Live
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Looks like Flickr had a storage problem last night.

We’ve had a temporary storage failure affecting a sizable chunk of old Flickr photos and are moving about 20 terabytes of photos across a few thousand miles (between two of our data centers) to ensure consistency and smoothness. ALL PHOTOS AND DATA ARE SAFE AND NOTHING HAS BEEN LOST. The site will come back up as soon as possible.

In a few minutes we’ll make a decision about whether to bring the site back online right away, or wait until all the photos are sure to show up. (If we bring it up right away, there will be lots of “This photo is currently unavailable” images, but everything will function properly.) Source: Flickr

We Say: Looks like all my stuff is cool and everything is back online.