Re:I deleted data from production
by winternett on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:29AM
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The (devops) admin deleted the link to an assets folder for all the file uploads for a pretty large web site and didn't even know how to explain what he did. We all didn't know it was a symlink that was deleted until later after the failure, but the disconnection caused the entire site's db to go corrupt... I restored the link but that didn't solve the resulting corruption, so a DB recovery/diff was in process from my desktop backup when they turned to blame on me...The DB was really FUBARED... Actually quite glad I didn't have to finish the fix on my own after all that drama TBH. :/
But... the database wasn't gone? If you delete a symlink, you can just put it back.