Man deletes entire company with one line of code

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JSt0rm

JSt0rm

Lifer
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Did it write 0's to the disk or something? I find it hard to believe all the data was lost from a simple delete command.
 
BoberFett

BoberFett

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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There's so much fail here, I'm surprised the moron was in business as long as he was. This almost seems intentional.
 
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Crono

Lifer
Aug 8, 2001
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I don't know how you can get to any sort of scale and not have offline backups.
 
clamum

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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BoberFett said:
There's so much fail here, I'm surprised the moron was in business as long as he was. This almost seems intentional.
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Yeah I'm sure glad I didn't go through him for hosting. Good Lord what an incompetent.

Also from that page: "Women write better code than men, study suggests." LIES! :colbert:
 
OutHouse

OutHouse

Lifer
Jun 5, 2000
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Matthiasa said:
He did have offsite backups but that got destroyed as well...
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no he didnt.

Mr Marsala confirmed that the code had even deleted all of the backups that he had taken in case of catastrophe. Because the drives that were backing up the computers were mounted to it, the computer managed to wipe all of those, too."
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BxgJ

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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).”
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o_O
 
John Connor

John Connor

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Nov 30, 2012
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This is why I back up my websites all the time. In fact, they are so small I can burn the back up to DVD-RW. And the sites are encrypted and backed up to no less than 5 cloud providers. LOL!

I like this comment.

Wiped? Like with a rag?
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SAWYER

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Blackjack200

Blackjack200

Lifer
May 28, 2007
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Smells like bullshit. Has anyone heard from any of his website clients? I mean, even google would have at least some of that stuff in cache, no?
 
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Genx87

Lifer
Apr 8, 2002
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No idea how somebody who runs that many sites would be so idiotic to remain in business this long.
 
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Crono

Lifer
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Carson Dyle said:
Took eleven replies to get to the first person who even read the f*cking article.

ATOT
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Offsite but not offline. If the "offline" drives are mounted to networked computers, they aren't truly offline. Those backups would have been just as vulnerable to malware or other hacking attempts for however briefly they were mounted.

He should have had longer term, cold storage drives that weren't directly connected or networked in any way at the time. They need not be an expensive and complex tape drive setup or anything, even portable external hard drives locked away in a fireproof safe, safety deposit boxes, or even simply locked drawers would have worked. Once a week (ideally daily), sneaker-net copies would put his customers potentially a few days out of date, but it's better than having nothing.

I'm not even in enterprise or running a hosting company and I know that much. I do feel bad for him, though, because it was a stupid mistake any of us could have made. But if you are running any number of sites for clients, you have to have multiple levels of backup.

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I'm sure the story is leaving out a few details, though, so who knows. Maybe it was more of an unavoidable situation than it seems, or he did have cold backups but they weren't recent.
 
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