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Re:Accidentally destroyed production database on first day o... by furstenheim on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:20AM (#26500084)
Lots of red flags there:

- Dev installation guides with credentials to prod.

- Tests that delete everything, not just what they create.

- The obvious of giving access to delete production on the first day.

- Where they lacking backups?

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Re:Accidentally destroyed production database on first day o... by Hamuko on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:34AM (#26500146)
Seems from the post that there were backups but they had never actually tested restoring from them.
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Re:Accidentally destroyed production database on first day o... by olorton on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:20AM (#26501525)
If you have backups, but have not recently tested restoration, then you do not have backups.

Test your restoration process people!

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