Gitlab Backups ... What Backups?
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. <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/01/gitlab_data_loss/>
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.
That's some major manure hitting the fan... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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/>
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro -
Peter Reutemann