Why It Is Not a Backup Unless It Is Decoupled
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My wife told me about that yesterday. I don't understand how that can even happen.
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Sounds like someone was running as root.
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Ah looks like it was fake
http://www.trymodern.com/article/596/this-guy-did-not-delete-his-entire-company-in-one-click
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@johnhooks said:
Ah looks like it was fake
http://www.trymodern.com/article/596/this-guy-did-not-delete-his-entire-company-in-one-click
Not surprising, but the risk is real. An "rm" command, a virus, ransomware, corruption, bad library or driver or any number of things can make tightly coupled backups killed by the same thing that kills the original storage.
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While the story might be fake, I've had this command put exactly like this into real Oracle RPMs that have wiped out servers (Oracle actually had this EXACT error) so it is a real risk.
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Cheap tricks to get publicity for a struggling business (that's what I got out of the end of the article). Classic desperation to save a failing business.
Web hosting is hard enough to make a living in, why taint your image with cheap exposure to either be:
- A desperate liar.
- Incompetent and end up deleting customer data.
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@BBigford said in Why It Is Not a Backup Unless It Is Decoupled:
Cheap tricks to get publicity for a struggling business (that's what I got out of the end of the article). Classic desperation to save a failing business.
Web hosting is hard enough to make a living in, why taint your image with cheap exposure to either be:
- A desperate liar.
- Incompetent and end up deleting customer data.
Because in a field where there is no way to differentiate yourself by being good, go for the foolish customer instead. he's probably in a "nothing to lose" position.
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@iroal said in Why It Is Not a Backup Unless It Is Decoupled:
It was a Hoax
Yup, that's what the thread has been discussing
