Yall the way that I had been looking forward to the Drupalcon Government Summit panel for a month, only to now be violently ill since last night. 😕
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@ericg this helps ❤️🥲
@Gina oh no…. Hope you feel better soon Gina 🫂
If it helps, back in my youth I used to do IT support and one of the daily tasks was changing the backup tape on the DEC Vax server that ran the entire company (back before PCs and Ethernet were a thing!) - no one told me that the tape cassette had a habit of falling out and hitting the power switch… I was not popular 😔
@not_a_label thank you that helped 🥲
:( Get better soon! Hopefully your cats use their healing powers too!
If anyone has any "I deleted prod on a Monday morning, and the world is still turning" stories, that would be great. I feel awful.
I've had two e-mail / data / internet companies fold and four social media platforms fold, that forced me to start from scratch. I lost a lot of personal data, contacts and correspondence as well as docs, photos & links.
I consider it house cleaning now - especially with all the data center sifting going on now.
Sucked at the time but all is good now. I've killed more accounts in recent years than I've kept.
Maybe not quite your situation but disrupting nevertheless.
Sun will rise.
@Gina
I have a funny story for you. In our company, Azure Devops was hired, who first waited for 3 months for a project, when he got, he remove the entire prod.
His argument was he think the Gateway was unnecessary do he delete everything.
what's better, delete all and because it was 4 pm, he went home.
We put it from scratch while implementing and fixing incrastructure debt.
Finally, the customer was satisfied.
@Gina Waaaay, waay back in day when we self-hosted our source code control central repository, CVS in case it matters, this one time I deleted it. All of it. For the whole company.
Everyone was sent on vacation during the 4 days it took me to recover it from 1/2 inch backup tape.
We lost those 4 days plus an additional day of lost coding because of the backup gap. Some engineers had some uncommitted code that was salvaged.
Now, approximately 30 years later, I think I'm the only one who remembers the incident.