• addie@feddit.uk
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      5 months ago

      Oh, one of our customers’ users deleted the /var directory on one of the servers we provided to them, because it was “taking up too much space on disk”. That’s where Postgres saves its DBs as well; wiped out weeks of work in production for them. This hits very close to home.

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    5 months ago

    I forgot to make a backup of a really complicated docker-compose.yml file yesterday, so I got to spend my Saturday reconstructing it

  • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    First thing to do with the bare metal server is enabling ufw via ssh and then asking someone to hard reboot it in the hopes, it wasn’t saved…

    “Duh! Of course we need root access!”