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Late night server rebuild led to 'nightmares about mutilated corpses'

Alistair
Windows

Backups

Security dude, long time ago decided that he was gonna be smart and make his backups "safe" and "unreadable by hackers".

backed up the /dev/VGNAME/LVNAME objects. - the file system was reiser.

Secdude, on phone, 4am: " Hey, we need to restore our working repository on $SERVERNAME, can you help us out?"

-- 45 minutes later I figure out what the twat had done, and point out to him that a restore will be destructive and that the likelihood of recovery was damn near zero, since the backup of the device was done during working hours, and ran over 45 minutes, and had a 'warning' on completion about changed states while backing up. Ended up doing a btree rebuild and found about 90 to 95% of the data still on the drive. Strangely he departed about 2 months later ...

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