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by doctor_eval 702 days ago
> I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago. Ah.

There is no part of this story that’s the protagonist’s fault. What a mess.
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occz 702 days ago
Agreed. Negligence bordering on criminal all the way up the management chain. The fact that they blamed the author is telling about the culture as well.
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pjerem 702 days ago
Yeah. And even if this cancellation was to save money, it’s not even an excuse.

What is hard and expansive are easy to restore backups.

Simple backups that may be a pain to restore but that are going to save your company from bankruptcy are only costing you some cheap storage and someone that more or less routinely checks that your data is safe somewhere.

I mean, of course I’m not advocating for flaky backups but even when you are cheap as fuck, you can afford a cron script running rsync and a couple hard disk drives.

Going fully yolo on this topic should not be even remotely acceptable in any business.

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cwales95 702 days ago
Yeah, cannot help but agree. It should have been impossible for this to happen in the first place.
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RaftPeople 702 days ago
> It should have been impossible for this to happen in the first place.

Exactly, CEO should have fired himself for allowing that environment to exist.

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