• imoldgreeeg
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    2 days ago
    Linux sysadmin horror story

    I did the thing…the rm -rf * thing in the wrong directory

    😱

    Did not take out the server but did take out one of those legacy Cron jobs that’s been running for years but no-one quite remembers how it works and it turns out it was not being backed up (that was a fun additional realisation) and kinda sorta really important.

    Eek.

    Just spent the last few hours surgically reinstating the code from and out of date backup.

    Fingers crossed.