UPDATE: “Total loss of affected EU servers” now confirmed.
UPDATE 13:30 UK: Rust’s developer Facepunch released a new update on the game’s EU servers after last night’s devastating fire – and it’s bad news.
“We confirmed the total loss of the affected servers in the EU during the fire at the OVH data center,” wrote Facepunch. “We are now exploring replacing the affected servers. The data cannot be restored.”
Earlier today, Facepunch said that 25 EU servers were lost. In general, Rust clears the player’s progress every month, but it is unclear how many of these servers hosted community-managed servers with their own rules.
Steam Charts data shows that the overall number of players is staying stable despite losses on the EU server, although the fire occurred during the early hours of today here in Europe, and the number of Rust players generally peaks in the early evening.
ORIGINAL STORY 11:30 am UK: Rust developer Facepunch has issued a bleak warning that large amounts of player data have been lost after a serious fire that destroyed many of the game’s servers in the EU.
25 of the EU servers for the Steam survival game are now offline after a fire at the OVH Datacenter in Strasbourg. The incident destroyed one of the facility’s buildings and damaged at least one other.
All employees were able to evacuate and no injuries were reported.
“We expect a great deal of data loss on the affected servers,” wrote Facepunch in Rust’s Twitter. “We will share more news when we can.”
“Firefighters immediately entered the scene, but were unable to control the fire in SBG2,” said Octave Klaba, head of cloud server company OVH, said this morning. “The entire site has been isolated, which impacts all services in SGB1-4. We recommend activating your Disaster Recovery Plan.”
Microsoft cybersecurity analyst Kevin Beaumont shared the following images of the building before and after the fire:
Here’s what appeared to be pre-recording, it was a SOC 2 certified CD (etc). pic.twitter.com/w9DZCE4loV
– Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) March 10, 2021
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First released in 2013, Rust recently exploded again on Steam thanks to high-level streamers playing together on a private server – and now possibly dead.
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