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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

On a related note, a lot of companies establish recovery processes without actually testing them. Then the first time a recovery is needed they find out that it doesn't work as expected.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

I wasn't prepared to be personally attacked like this.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And also not updating them when things change. The recovery process for a database changes considerably once it's involved in replication, which one client found out the hard way.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago