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Why is it you (GitLab) and every other company has to learn from your own mistakes again and again instead of learning from others? Just a cursory glance at a f
by erikbye 10y ago
Why is it you (GitLab) and every other company has to learn from your own mistakes again and again instead of learning from others? Just a cursory glance at a few log files would have told you that your backups are not happening. Nevermind verifying actual backups...
Do you have DBAs? Are they completely inept at their job? Don't answer.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoHindsight is always 20/20. Berating people who now KNOW mistakes were made accomplishes nothing.
- erikbye 10y agoBackup is elementary. It should not need to be learned nor manifest itself as a hindsight revelation. Frankly GitLab seems more and more like a mom and pop shop that learned Rails over a weekend. They did not even know if they had functioning backups before shit hit the fan.
- AsyncAwait 10y agoI bet you're making as successful of a software as they are. Don't answer...
- vegabook 10y agoYours is an entirely appropriate response. While I appreciate the gushing solidarity in the rest of this thread, non working backups really is an elementary IT error, accurately attributable to incompetence.