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Reading this, the thing that stuck out to me was how remarkably lucky they were to have the two snapshots. The one from 6 hours earlier was there seemingly by c
by gr2020 10y ago
Reading this, the thing that stuck out to me was how remarkably lucky they were to have the two snapshots. The one from 6 hours earlier was there seemingly by chance, as an engineer had created it for unrelated reasons. And for both the 6- and 24-hour snapshots, it seems just lucky that neither had any breaking changes made to them by pre-production code (they _were_ dev/staging snapshots, after all).
I'm glad it all worked out in the end!
- sytse 10y agoWe too are glad we had those snapshots. And while it was the worst thing that ever happend at GitLab it is humbling to know that it could have been worse.
- animex 10y agoWhat do you think would have happened if you had total data loss/failure?
- sb8244 10y agoI don't work for gitlab. Isn't that a put you out of business moment? I guess there is enterprise installations but the main website would be toast. I guess there is the chance there were still older backups taken intentionally or by chance that would have been worse but recoverable from
- gtaylor 10y agoMost of their income probably comes from customers that run their own GitLab Enterprises installs. This would have really sucked for all of their non paying users, though.