2 Feb
2017
2 Feb
'17
9 a.m.
On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 15:22:37 +1300, I wrote:
A harried sysadmin accidentally deletes nearly 300GB of data during a troublesome data replication process ... and then they discover that, out of 5 different recovery procedures they thought they had available, none work.
Followup: more due to good luck than good management, they were able to recover most of the data from a staging server. <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/02/gitlabcom_has_found_and_restored_from_an_accidental_backup/>