The Backup That Wasn't

try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3841501) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Vivian Voss Posted on Apr 30 • Originally published at vivianvoss.net The Backup That Wasn't #postmortem #backup #postgres #sysadmin Tales from the Bare Metal, Episode 01 « Thou shalt not trust a backup thou hast not restored! » At half past eleven on the night of Tuesday, 31 January 2017, an engineer at GitLab.com typed rm -rf on what they believed was the secondary PostgreSQL database. The terminals on their screen were visually identical, save for the hostname in the prompt.

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