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Prod database on a single server with a single drive

• hondo77 3y ago
  ...with no backups.
  • readthenotes1 3y ago
    Without reliable restores. FIFY
    • organsnyder 3y ago
      What part of "with no backups" didn't you understand? :-)
      • scubbo 3y ago
        Perhaps the part where "having backups which are unreliable/unrestorable" is _more_ dangerous than "being known to have no backups", because the former provides a false sense of security?
        • MenhirMike 3y ago
          "Good companies test their backups. Great companies test their restores." Learned that lesson the hard way a few decades ago.
  • HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
    And stored under the developer's desk.
    • butlike 3y ago
      with the power button lined up with where their shoe rests.
    • qingcharles 3y ago
      A CEO once got up on stage to announce an important new phone to the world's assembled press not knowing that the picture on the screen of the phone was coming from a PC in a bedroom closet and the developers were sweating like dogs as they watched the broadcast on the BBC. I shall say no more.
  • spatley 3y ago
    Who needs backup when you just rsync every 10 minutes?
    • thrixton 3y ago
      Rsync? MTBF on a WD Green is 1M hours, we’ll replace it at 900K and be golden…