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GitLab had a major data loss incident on their cloud service today. Very unfortunate. I know a bunch of folks who work there. -- (link)

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jan 31 '17, 23:03

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Apparently the backup was 6 hours old. That's a lot of lost time. (www.theregister.co.uk)

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basically our worst nightmare as IT. I can't tell you how many times I have to check things to be sure they're working and find that they've failed - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Feb 1, 05:38 1
- yup -- nm - decline Feb 1, 06:28
This is why I don't use Cloud services. -- nm - Karl_S Feb 1, 04:49
my brother was just tweeting about this. "So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in - mafic Jan 31, 23:23 6
- Yeah. I mean, ST's backup procedures are awful, but that's a whole 'nother ballgame. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 23:28 5
  - I just went looking through my backups and found a folder called "HSX wedding epiphany to mr pippy" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 23:33 2
    - Hmmm -- nm - Epiphany Feb 1, 03:55 1
      - Would you like me to zip it up and email it to you? I think maybe I spotted a Mel Profit. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 1, 06:51
  - Sure, but it's not like we'd lose information that cures cancer. Other than login information we could go on with no back boards. -- nm - zork Jan 31, 23:32 1
    - I already behave like no post exists prior to the words I'm writing right now. -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 23:35

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