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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This really isn't dangerous unless you already screwed up badly. If it wipes, you just restore from backup/DR.

You do have backups and a DR plan for your prod servers, right?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Didn't some company have a script running that would randomly kill stuff to always test redundancies?

I vaguely recall someone telling me that about netflix

Edit: https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

that's like starting fires on random properties to make sure your firefighters stay on their toes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I vaguely remember reading a news story about a firefighter that did that a while ago.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sure do! They're on the prod servers and were one of the first things deleted!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

the backup was connected via /media/backups so that's gone too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Not sure, do I?