GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail

On Tuesday evening, Pacific Time, the startup issued a sobering series of tweets we've listed below. Behind the scenes, a tired sysadmin, working late at night in the Netherlands, had accidentally deleted a directory on the wrong server during a frustrating database replication process: he wiped a folder containing 300GB of live production data that was due to be replicated.

Just 4.5GB remained by the time he canceled the rm -rf command. The last potentially viable backup was taken six hours beforehand.

Forras: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/01/gitlab_data_loss
Livedoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCxIABGiryG7_z…
GithubStatus: https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus

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