I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Production

Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by FunnyLookinHat on Thursday May 05, 2022 @09:37AM (#31273140)

I was actually really impressed with this individual! For someone who has less than a year of experience, they're showing quite a bit of initiative, drive, and curiosity - which really are what make or break engineers as they develop. Taking the time to do a blog post (effectively a post-mortem) and share it is even better!

And yes - I've literally done this exact same error (with TB of video data!). Spending the following week remediating all of that data loss was a great lesson in patience and attention to detail. :-)

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by tasuki on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:19AM (#31273682)

Wrt "less than one year of experience", looking at Nikita's CV and GitHub, despite the title, they aren't really a junior developer :)

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by franciscop on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:23AM (#31273744)

True, he's been teaching programming since at least 2018, I was in a similar boat where I'd been programming for almost 5-7 years for fun and profit before my first official fulltime job.

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by Moru on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:09AM (#31273552)

My mistake was on floppy disc with source code, other text files and images. Was hand editing (in hex disc editor) the floppy to get back the data, sector by sector. Fun times. Not going back there though :-)

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by nso on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:13AM (#31273605)

Mine was a DELETE FROM Users; WHERE... Fun was had.

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by codegeek on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:23AM (#31273737)

Usually the recommendation is to not start writing the DELETE query first. Write the SELECT query first and see the results. If you miss the WHERE clause, you will see that immediately. Then change SELECT * to DELETE. But I assume you have learned that lesson already :)

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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by Moru on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:34AM (#31273873)

Yes, but it can't be stressed enough, always the first time for someone.

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