> I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance ha

> I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago. Ah. As usual, a company with legitimately moronic processes experiences the consequences of those moronic processes when a "junior" person breaks something. Whoever turned off those backups as well as whoever thought devs (especially "junior" devs) should be mutating prod tables by hand are ultimately accountable.