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by physix 356 days ago
I dunno. The effort needed to ensure you have backups is tiny compared to the work done to create the product. And to pull a backup before deleting stuff in production only needs a smidgen of experience.

They were extremely lucky. Imagine what the boss would have said if they hadn't managed to recover the data.

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This _was_ one of the bosses.
Ah, yes.

> I immediately messaged my co-founders.