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Skill issue
Hey Siri, what is a “backup”.
Siri: “sure! I’ll go right ahead and permanently delete everything.”
Playing Back It Up by Cardi B.
What, is a requirement for Claude to work that you "sudo chmod -R 777 /" or something?
Given that the infrastructure description included the DataTalks.Club website, this resulted in a full wipe of the setup for both sites, including a database with 2.5 years of records, and database snapshots that Grigorev had counted on as backups. The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.
sigh, SNAPSHOTS ARE NOT BACKUPS!
haha, whoopsie lol :)
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They had a backup and restored everything. This is clickbait.
No, they had only snapshots. Which is not a backup. They were lucky support could restore the data which by rights should have been wiped.
...this resulted in a full wipe of the setup for both sites, including a database with 2.5 years of records, and database snapshots that Grigorev had counted on as backups. The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.
Correct, the developer only had snapshots, but the article doesn't state how Amazon Business restored their data. Amazon business offers both snapshots and full backups.
Regardless of the developer's shoddy version control, they got their data restored and this non-issue is being used as clickbait to feed people's confirmation bias.
Terraform state is a garbage hack I feel. You have your plan in code. You have a target. Just diff it. Thats what helmfile do. No managing state file. Thats what iac should be. Just code. Deterministic. Diff before applying it.
womp womp
No backups, no pity.
No backup, no mercy.
This is like blaming the gun for killing people.
More a problem with the marketing, right? Imagine if guns were marketed as safe and helpful back scratchers, and then someone shoots themselves because they used the gun to scratch their back.
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Good. Serves them right.
skill issue tbh