Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
by x0x0 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:09PM
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For plain files, pick your risk tolerance.
For DB backups, until you've actually loaded it back into the DB, recovered the tables, and tested a couple rows are bit identical to the source, it's a hope of a backup not a backup. Things like weird character set encodings can cause issues here.
For DB backups, until you've actually loaded it back into the DB, recovered the tables, and tested a couple rows are bit identical to the source, it's a hope of a backup not a backup. Things like weird character set encodings can cause issues here.