Man destroys his business with 1 line of code

What is more idiotic (if this is true) is that he doesn't appear to have an offsite tape or cloud backup. Anyone who cares one iota about staying in business has tapes in a fireproof safe on site and a rotation to an offsite location (or a cloud service provider) just in case something like this happens.

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Three copies of your data (live, local backup, remote backup), on two different types of media (disk / tape or cloud), one of which is offsite.
 
Wow, wonder how many users were hit because of this.

Somewhat of a reminder to do your own backups of sites as you never know what sort of person is behind the curtain.
 
Rilot said:
What is more idiotic (if this is true) is that he doesn't appear to have an offsite tape or cloud backup. Anyone who cares one iota about staying in business has tapes in a fireproof safe on site and a rotation to an offsite location (or a cloud service provider) just in case something like this happens.

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Three copies of your data (live, local backup, remote backup), on two different types of media (disk / tape or cloud), one of which is offsite.
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Going by the article, he did have an offsite backup, but it was mounted at the time. :p.
 
I never mount my backup volume to an OS in write mode for just this reason (and cryptoware).

If I was doing an offside copy like he was I would use ZFS snapshots or perhaps rsync which don't require the volume to be mounted. At the very least I'd make sure the backup volume supported snapshots so I could easily roll back.

Link seems dead now by the way
 
Uhtred said:
I never mount my backup volume to an OS in write mode for just this reason (and cryptoware).

If I was doing an offside copy like he was I would use ZFS snapshots or perhaps rsync which don't require the volume to be mounted. At the very least I'd make sure the backup volume supported snapshots so I could easily roll back.
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^^ this
 
h4rm0ny said:
You are a good person and should feel good.
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lol - I learnt the hard way after an entire RAID array failure :|

Uhtred said:
(and cryptoware)
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Its one of my main motivations these days - unfortunately some of it has become quite sophisticated and can infect/exploit systems on a LAN (even variants with the ability to take control of common NAS boxes like Synology and QNAP) even lying mostly dormant on the original infected machine until it has spread to other systems on the network - so goes beyond just me being careful what I do online on my machine :|
 
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Done similar before. Was cleanign out some home directories of people who had left the company, a swift rm -rf * when i thought I was in /home/JohnDoe/ but of course I was in root.

Took about 2 weeks to get the system back up.... There were backups of critical data but not of the actual system, just so much configuration that had to be hand hold.
 
ots3go said:
Unless he's using a custom version of rm or a version older than 2006, shenanigans.

Alongside the lack of clients complaining.

(--preserve-root is rm's friend.)
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This. I think it's a troll.

If you look at the user comments on server fault somebody gives him some advice on how he could recover, part of which is creating a copy of the wiped disk(s) with a command called 'dd' and the thread creator replies saying "I got if and of the wrong way round, what now' which just seemed to confirm somebody having a laugh to me for some reason.

For non techies if and of are basically input file and output file, it confirmed he knew exactly what the commands did and that getting them wrong could trash things even more, so replying in that way just seems to be continuing a troll to me
 
Either a troll or he is stupid - at that point being a business and all you freeze everything and call in the professionals not trial and error your way back :S
 
Rroff said:
Its one of my main motivations these days - unfortunately some of it has become quite sophisticated and can infect/exploit systems on a LAN (even variants with the ability to take control of common NAS boxes like Synology and QNAP) even lying mostly dormant on the original infected machine until it has spread to other systems on the network - so goes beyond just me being careful what I do online on my machine :|
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I have all the family using onedrive but as it doesn't support versioning on all file types I started using my NAS again for backups with bittorrent sync and zfs snapshots to compliment onedrive.
 
I know someone who has done this or something very similar (deleted everything on their hosting). Took them a weekend of trawling through backups to get everything back up n running.
 
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NickK said:
rm = relocate to mordor
-rf = really and fast

Then you should know ... <insert Sean Bean meme here> thus it should not be possible without a concerted effort...
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-rf argument as really and fast has me chuckling. Definably going to be telling people to use this to speed thing up!
 
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