http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html
I swear to god, pretty sure this dude came on here complaining yesterday. I think he's famous now.
Yeah, I remember the thread
He was here yesterday
kek
got rektd
my sides
lmao
>>54035980
Unless of course, someone copypastaed the server fault qn onto /g/
anyone has images or links to that thread?
>>54035980
the thread yesterday was just a screencap of a stackoverflow post, it wasn't actually the OP who did it you retard
>>54035980
Yeah I remember that thread.
>>54036338
archive g/thread/S53991808#p53991808
Couldn't he use some data recovery software on the drives to restore most of the data? rm doesn't write garbage data over the deleted files right? As long as he didn't do anything else it should be easy to recover.
>>54036398
Yeah, he could. But it'd only recover known file types that have readable magics and headers with file offset data. SO say goodbye to a lot of text and random other binary data.
...Unless you manually dig through the drive with a hex editor.
>>54035980
What?
Last time I heard about some bad code destroying stuff the dude who did it got promoted.
That sure was most helpful answer.
I just wanted to say I have never seen that kinda stuff happen on Windows servers, only on Unix shit.
Stay mad, cucknixfags.
>>54037710
Because no one uses Windows servers.
>>54037759
You wanna know how I know you've never had a sysadmin job?
Because Windows Server is literally industry standard for enterprise servers.
Literally every organization out there has at least an Exchange and an Active Directory server.
Heck, you can't even do directory and groupware without Windows workstations and Windows servers. That's why Microsoft dominates the professional computing market.
I understand your frustration.
>>54037759
Lmao I do
>“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).”
now that is embarrasing. "offsite" yet mounted on the active systems, something was bound to go wrong eventually here
people laugh
I have actual cold stomach and fear running through me, even just reading about this makes me physically ill
I guess this is my trigger
>mfw I'm living on the edge with no backups whatsoever
>keeping off site backups on site
>keeping them powered on at all times
>having absolutely no read only backups
this is still his fault and the worst thing is they WILL fuck up the rm command now because of this idiot
>>54037854
>Literally every organization out there has at least an Exchange and an Active Directory server.
Those are, however, typically the only thing Windows is used for. 70-80% of the server market is *nix in various shapes and colours.
Has this been confirmed by any independent sources?
>I read it on a forum, therefore it definitely happened
>>54036017
>He was here yesterday
Nope.
It got posted to a few reddit subs before someone copied it here.
>inb4 gb2reddit
we should just go back to file cabinets.
>>54037759
>Because no one uses Windows servers.
Kinda funny you say that considering they have 33% server marketshare still and the very place this was posted (stack*) all run off of Windows ISS.
>>54037710
B-but knowing all sorts of obscure command line jargon makes you a REAL MAN(tm) and only scrubs use GUIs! Also I never make mistakes, ever, and if you do make one, you should be punished for it! Serves you right, noob!
>>54035980
>the drives that were backing up the computers were mounted to it
And nothing of value....
>>54035980
I can't find his company at all... what is it? Apparently someone found it and the site works fine so probably fake shit
>not just restoring the deleted backups
hue
>nobody posting an archive link
https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S53991808#p53991808
>>54039318
why are you posting on a technology board if you don't know how technology works and have no interest in learning
>>54036398
also, there are possibly a shitload of drives to go through.
>>54039075
Not really. I can think of numerous other use cases for Windows Servers. Just off the top of my head: MSSQL, RDP terminal, .NET application, SharePoint, I could go on forever.
Stay mad, unixcuck.
What's going on here?
>>54035980
Hopefully he didn't actually listen to anybody that told him he was fucked. That data is absolutely recoverable so long as he doesn't overwrite it.
>>54039075
dont forget all of the endpoints.
>>54039075
>MUH SUPERCOMPUTERS
>MUH WEB SERVERS
>>54038136
That's because nothing bad is going to happen if your 100GiB of trap porn gets corrupted/deleted
>>54037854
>Literally every organization out there has at least an Exchange and an Active Directory server.
Running in a VM on a Linux server.
>>54041586
Actually that depends. If for example he used XFS (a very efficient FS) he is truly fucked. Recovery will actually be impossible and he's fucked.
>>54041756
You mean running in a VM on an esxi server.
>>54041769
esxi is a linux kernel
>>54041827
And? It is still vmware and anything that matters in it isn't open source. You run esxi so your 500 windows servers can be consolidated, but you always keep at least dc physical.
Doesn't change the fact that whether you like it or not, windows is heavy in enterprise. And it is for a reason.
>>54041401
You're using verizon, aka getting raped each month with bullshit fees.
>>54041851
So, I'm right, you admit it, and now you have to suck on it. Sorry, dude, you won't be Making America Great Again tongiht.
>>54041756
>what is Hyper-V
>for some reason the more common use of ESXi in any way negates NT's presence and significance in enterprise infrastructure
>for some reason the hypervisor is literally everything
>>54041982
Yeah, NT is so good VMWare won't base its products on it. They use a hobbyist/hippie kernel instead. Because it's better. Which any competent sysadmin knows.
>"You're going out of business. You don't need technical advice, you need to call a lawyer."
damn son.
10/10 thread would read again, kek'd heavily
>>54041915
Right about what? You don't use esxi to run linux servers (because no one cares), you run it to run windows servers.
Or you just use hyper-v. But windows is king, and going to wikipedia and showing that web servers are all linux is not an argument.
>>54035980
Where's the smug anon quietly mentioning backups?
>>54042684
Quietly shaking his head as the idiot managed to wipe his backups in what can only be described as a biblical display of hilarious stupidity.
