[x3ord]

Exactly. I'm ashamed that my first reaction reading this was to blame OP. But in the 2 min it took to read the post I had come full circle to wondering what kind of terribly run company would allow this to happen--I guess the type that hires philosophy majors straight out of college without vetting their engineering skills.

[pnathan]

> the type that hires philosophy majors straight out of college without vetting their engineering skills.

Or hires them and then adequately educating them in software development.

[quanticle]

Or one that doesn't have a process to ensure that backup and recovery procedures when something like this happens are as painless as possible.