>I was 22 and working at a Social Gaming startup in California. >Part of my naive testing process involved manually clearing the RAIDS table, to then recreate

>I was 22 and working at a Social Gaming startup in California. >Part of my naive testing process involved manually clearing the RAIDS table, to then recreate it programatically. >Listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago. "The CEO leaned across the table, got in my face, and said, "this, is a monumental fuck up. You're gonna cost us millions in revenue". What. The. Fuck. The LAST person I would blame is the brand new programmer. They don't backup up their production database? If it wasn't this particular incident it would have been someone else, or a hardware failure.