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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by kova12 on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:51AM (#30382535)
there's so many layers that could have caught the issue, even if you don't use ZFS... What's the point of splurging on EPYC with 256 GB of RAM if you don't want to spend a penny on resilience
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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by halo37253 on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:55PM (#30389622)
It smells of Web Dev doing Web Dev things.

It works now, it'll be fine.

Sure a Docker or VM can be easy to rebuild from scratch. But a Database is not.

I learned years ago when a failed HDD took 2TB of data I will never get back.

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