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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by juskrey on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:42AM (#13548395)
This is basic risk management. What matters is error survival, not absence of errors. Moreover, total absence of errors means accumulating dangerous risk. See NN Taleb, for example.
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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by bbcbasic on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:16AM (#13549983)
Sounds defeatist to me. Especially when we are not talking about literal moonshots, but backup and restore procedures. The IT equivalent of seatbelts.
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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by throwaway2048 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:49AM (#13550841)
I think at this point, recognising that software and software deployments invariably have bugs/issues is just realistic. The only setups that are free of them, are setups where the problems havent been discovered yet.
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