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MySpace lost all its music from 2003 to 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19417640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19417640 Probably a few hundre

• oefrha 7y ago
  That’s the point: we know about that. Hard to believe “this happens everywhere” when we only know a few instances, and any instance would be picked up by media.
  • vidarh 7y ago
    I've had to help clean up after any number of data losses or near losses that has never been made public; ranging from someone mkfs'ing the wrong device on a production server, to truncating the wrong table. In some cases afterwards having people writing awful scripts to munge log files (that were never intended for that purpose) to reconstruct data that were too recent for the last backup. Of course there are people that avoid this, but I've seen very few places where their processes are sufficient to fully protect against it - a lot of people get by more on luck that proper planning. Often these incidents are down to cold hard risk calculations and people know they're taking risks with customer data and have deemed them acceptable.