[trillic]

Prod database on a single server with a single drive

[hondo77]

...with no backups.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

And stored under the developer's desk.

[qingcharles]

A CEO once got up on stage to announce an important new phone to the world's assembled press not knowing that the picture on the screen of the phone was coming from a PC in a bedroom closet and the developers were sweating like dogs as they watched the broadcast on the BBC. I shall say no more.

[butlike]

with the power button lined up with where their shoe rests.

[readthenotes1]

Without reliable restores.

FIFY

[organsnyder]

What part of "with no backups" didn't you understand?

:-)

[scubbo]

Perhaps the part where "having backups which are unreliable/unrestorable" is _more_ dangerous than "being known to have no backups", because the former provides a false sense of security?

[MenhirMike]

"Good companies test their backups. Great companies test their restores."

Learned that lesson the hard way a few decades ago.

[spatley]

Who needs backup when you just rsync every 10 minutes?

[thrixton]

Rsync?

MTBF on a WD Green is 1M hours, we’ll replace it at 900K and be golden…