Giant automobile manufacturer Toyota had to shut down all its factories in Japan for a very interesting reason. It turned out that there were no free hard disks left in the company’s factory servers and the data could not be written. As a result, production across the country was suspended.
What happened when the server capacity at the Toyota factory ran out
Toyota announced that it experienced an interruption in its operations due to a storage error in its database. This situation affected factories in Japan, causing production to be stopped for several days.
A planned maintenance of Toyota’s IT systems was underway last week. However, it turned out that the storage capacity was exhausted before the database transfer was completed. This situation caused the order system to malfunction. Because the main and backup servers used the same system, operations could not be restored.
According to the information conveyed, after this strange outage, 12 of Toyota’s 14 assembly plants in Japan were temporarily stopped. It is estimated that there is a loss of approximately 13 thousand vehicles in daily production.
This problem, which caused a two-day outage, was resolved by Toyota purchasing a larger capacity server and moving the ordering system to the new server.
The company confirmed the details about the issue and apologized for the disruption. He said that the problems were not caused by a cyber attack, they just reached the file limit in hard disk transfer.
This isn’t the first strange glitch Toyota has experienced. Previously, in May, customer data was leaked due to misconfigurations on the servers.
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