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GitLab wiped its main database, and the backups weren't there

How a GitLab engineer wiped the primary database thinking it was the copy on 31 January 2017, found every backup method missing, and was saved by a snapshot taken for load testing.

01 · It was the original
WS · An engineer wiped GitLab's main database, and the backups weren't there

It wasn't the copy. It was the original.

Wiping the copy. Or so they thought.

31 January 2017.