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Re:Accidentally destroyed production database on first day o... by toomuchtodo on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:24AM (#14476799)
* Local env setup docs should have no production creds in it (EDIT: production creds should always be encrypted at rest)

* new dev should only have full access to local and dev envs, no write access to prod

* you're backing up all of your databases, right? Nightly is mandatory, hourly is better

* if you don't have a DBA, use RDS

That'll prevent the majority of weapons grade mistakes.

Source: 15 years in ops

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