'Check Your Backups Work' Day

Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by erikbye on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:55AM (#13541140)

Why is it you (GitLab) and every other company has to learn from your own mistakes again and again instead of learning from others? Just a cursory glance at a few log files would have told you that your backups are not happening. Nevermind verifying actual backups...

Do you have DBAs? Are they completely inept at their job? Don't answer.

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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by vegabook on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:11PM (#13543277)

Yours is an entirely appropriate response. While I appreciate the gushing solidarity in the rest of this thread, non working backups really is an elementary IT error, accurately attributable to incompetence.

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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:29AM (#13541407)

Hindsight is always 20/20. Berating people who now KNOW mistakes were made accomplishes nothing.

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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by erikbye on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:29PM (#13542768)

Backup is elementary. It should not need to be learned nor manifest itself as a hindsight revelation. Frankly GitLab seems more and more like a mom and pop shop that learned Rails over a weekend. They did not even know if they had functioning backups before shit hit the fan.

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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by AsyncAwait on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:05PM (#13544525)

I bet you're making as successful of a software as they are. Don't answer...

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