[koolba]

> Not blaming Gitlab for bad practices or anything, i'm just curious.

On the contrary, the backup snafu was caused by a series of bad practices. If that's how backups are handled I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the testing infrastructure has issues as well. Heck, I'd be surprised if it didn't!

Particularly because a solid testing infrastructure works in tandem with your backup processes by restoring recent backups.

Nothing tests new code better than running it on a production restore and nothing validates backups better than using them on a regular basis for testing.