Elephant in the Room : #database #backup
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Photo by Alexandre ChambonWe’ve seen it many times. Yet it sill occurs on a regular basis, as if there’s no permanent cure for this chronic problem.About 9 years ago, Sidekick, a popular T-Mobile smartphone at the time, lost all of user data in the cloud, leaving 800,000 users without access to their own personal data such as email, notes, contacts, calendars and photos.Later on, Microsoft decided to discontinue the cloud service and eventually, sales of the device.As a result, a massive business and its ecosystem ceased to exist. It was the biggest disaster in cloud computing history.GitLab also suffered from broken recovery procedures when an engineer had accidentally deleted a directory on the wrong server, by running rm -rf /important-data on their primary database.Side note: Kudos to (...)