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bfung on March 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What (almost) company sinking engineering ...

How did not doing these things sink the company?

The problems stated are bad, but did something actually happen as a result, like a rogue script deleting things and the company no longer in business?

yjftsjthsd-h on March 25, 2022 [–]

I think the implication of the sum of the things listed is that an old backup system overwrote/mangled newer backups because nobody turned it off and the two systems were targeting the same storage.

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