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    [–] [email protected] 61 points 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 months ago

    Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

    Not sure, do I?