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Drama is pretty much non-existent; but when it happens, it can be a day or two where things are in a not-great state. Backups help a lot here, to easily get into a known working state -- also practicing restoring from those backups is a good exercise, so I don't mind it too much. There's nothing like learning your backup was missing some component or something, especially when the risks aren't high.

I think the worst drama ever was a partial disk failure. Things kinda hobbled along for awhile before things actually started failing, and at that point things were getting corrupted. That poofed a weekend out of my life. Now I have better monitoring and alerting.



Cool, I could see doing this for some projects. Thanks for going into detail a bit!




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