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by depereo 1019 days ago
It's possible that the backup restore/test process was still 'automated' to some degree, like a manually-run pipeline or playbook etc.

Obviously there were mistakes made in process design and tools deployment but I don't think this is 'baffling incompetence' more than it is a couple of small mistakes that compounded each other to have a pretty spectacular impact.