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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by rdslw on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:53AM (#13549614)
Just to stress one thing, while mentioned in their report, most people don't comprehend:

Gitlab was _one_ (last!) final step from complete data loss of everything. One. At that night, there was quite a long moment there had only one copy (and 6 hours old). Every other backup was missing/notworking/deleted.

This is scary.

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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by crististm on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:01AM (#13549641)
This is the fact that deserves more attention. The operator did a manual backup before work which was the only available one.

I find this to be an eye opener. The real problem was dodged by doing the right thing in the proverbial last minute (6 hours).

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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by s_kilk on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:11AM (#13551001)
In other words, there is an alternate universe in which Gitlab is now categorically dead, all because that employee didn't make that single backup.
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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by garaetjjte on Sunday February 05, 2017 @06:52AM (#13571965)
Didn't they had two copies? (staging server and LVM snapshot)
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