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Here is a screw-up/near miss share. I was migrating a pensions service to a cloud vendor. Part of this involved a very large ETL. Practice makes perfect and we
by ed_blackburn 7y ago
Here is a screw-up/near miss share. I was migrating a pensions service to a cloud vendor. Part of this involved a very large ETL. Practice makes perfect and we ran the custom process regularly to ensure I'd go smoothly on the big day. The last time we ran the practice I somehow managed to get my prod creds mixed up and I started to restore a week old back up over the top of production. Thankfully the first part of the process is a disk check and I realised my mistake and cancelled the job before any destructive actions happened. I was minutes away from destroying the pensions records for two FTSE 100 businesses.
Everyone makes mistakes! It's how we learn :-)
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- notimetorelax 7y agoDid you do any changes to the setup after this near miss to avoid doing this again?
- ed_blackburn 7y agoYes. I reconfigured the creds and grants so it wasn't possible to repeat the mistake. The lesson learned was about isolation and diligence.