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Corporate Darwin Award: Man deletes his entire company
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:45 pm
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A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code.
By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers.
Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault that he was now stuck after having accidentally run destructive code on his own computers. But far from advising them how to fix it, most experts informed him that he had just accidentally deleted the data of his company and its clients, and in so doing had probably destroyed his entire company with just one line of code.
The problem command was "rm -rf": a basic piece of code that will delete everything it is told to. The “rm” tells the computer to remove; the r deletes everything within a given directory; and the f stands for “force”, telling the computer to ignore the usual warnings that come when deleting files.
Together, the code deleted everything on the computer, including Mr Masarla’s customers' websites, he wrote. Mr Masarla runs a web hosting company, which looks after the servers and internet connections on which the files for websites are stored.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:46 pm to Jim Rockford
ah, love me some cryptic unix command characters
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:49 pm to bbvdd
So, saying sorry won't fix it?
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:49 pm to Jim Rockford
And what "corporate" company does not have multiple backups, much less, redundant ones.
If he doesn't have backups then he deserves this. I mean wtf
If he doesn't have backups then he deserves this. I mean wtf
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:50 pm to CAD703X
I actually did this by accident years ago to a company's source code base. We had backups so it was not that big a deal.
r is recursive traversal of directories down the line and f means force.
The fact the dude has no backups should be the real issue here.
r is recursive traversal of directories down the line and f means force.
The fact the dude has no backups should be the real issue here.
This post was edited on 4/15/16 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:50 pm to Jim Rockford
How in the hell did he not have all that backed up? I refuse to believe he didn't have some type of disaster recovery process to protect from this, or a fire, or whatever else could happen.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:51 pm to Jim Rockford
This sounds like some dumb shite my computer illiterate arse would do.
This post was edited on 4/15/16 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:53 pm to Jim Rockford
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Mr Masarla runs a web hosting company, which looks after the servers and internet connections on which the files for websites are stored.
If he doesnt have any type of backup, he is a fricking tool.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:54 pm to musick
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If he doesnt have any type of backup, he is a fricking tool.
This is why your critical vendors had better be able to show you a current IT audit.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:55 pm to supadave3
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How in the hell did he not have all that backed up? I refuse to believe he didn't have some type of disaster recovery process to protect from this, or a fire, or whatever else could happen.
The article says his backups were destroyed as well.
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“All servers got deleted and the offsite backups too because the remote storage was mounted just before by the same script (that is a backup maintenance script).”
This is why you keep an offline backup
This post was edited on 4/15/16 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:55 pm to musick
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And what "corporate" company does not have multiple backups, much less, redundant ones.
If he doesn't have backups then he deserves this. I mean wtf
This
Posted on 4/15/16 at 2:56 pm to Tigeralum2008
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The article says his backups were destroyed as well.
This is why you keep an offline backup
Something is fishy here. Not a very good company if he didn't plan for this
Posted on 4/15/16 at 3:05 pm to Jim Rockford
Did he try to power off then back on?
Posted on 4/15/16 at 3:07 pm to Jim Rockford
I think he needs a snickers.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 3:17 pm to Jim Rockford
Just restore from the COOP site. (shrugs)
Posted on 4/15/16 at 3:21 pm to VetteGuy
Anyone rolling without redundant backups on different mediums in this day and age is asking for trouble.
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