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Upstart said it had outgrown the cloud – now five out of five restore tools have failed

 

                               



 

1 Feb 2017 at 02:02, Simon Sharwood Source-code hub GitLab.com is in meltdown after experiencing data loss as a result of what it has suddenly discovered are ineffectual backups.

 

On Tuesday evening, Pacific Time, the startup issued a sobering series of tweets we've listed below. Behind the scenes, a tired sysadmin, working late at night in the Netherlands, had accidentally deleted a directory on the wrong server during a frustrating database replication process: he wiped a folder containing 300GB of live production data that was due to be replicated.

 

Just 4.5GB remained by the time he canceled the rm -rf command. The last potentially viable backup was taken six hours beforehand.

 

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Ouch! Wouldn't want to be that sysadmin.
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Ouch! Wouldn't want to be that sysadmin.

This short clip says a lot:

 

"So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place."
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@ wrote:

Ouch! Wouldn't want to be that sysadmin.

This short clip says a lot:

 

"So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place."

The biggest thing i see many times from PC's I repair! "or set up in the first place" :(

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