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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by jpalmer on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:32AM (#47276208)
If you delete all your backups, AWS maintains shadow backups they can restore? Is that right?
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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by bombcar on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:41AM (#47276353)
You have to contact the NSA and ask for the shadow backup ;)
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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by otterley on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:30AM (#47277124)
Don’t count on it. I’m more than a little surprised that support was able to do this, and if I still worked at AWS I’d be raising questions internally.
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