@nixCraft That escalated ridiculously quickly.

@nixCraft 🙈

@nixCraft
DROP prod_userdata;

@nixCraft can't you just touch an unisolated powercord? that's less painful

@nixCraft it will wake you up and make you want to crawl under a sheet at the same time.

@nixCraft I remember when a deleted VM image kept me awake for 4 days in a row, trying to restore from broken backups

@nixCraft 😂

@nixCraft Yep!🤪

@nixCraft omg 😂😂😂

@nixCraft I felt my blood pressure jump just reading this!

@nixCraft a friend of mine was developing a plugin for binary data compression for a DB. I can't recall which SQL flavour. Anyway, he tested it on the wrong server. Fortunately the compressor worked very well and achieved a stunning compression ratio. The DB was now 0 bytes sized. It was all OK in the end. Kind of. They had week old tape backups and he never touched compression algorithms again. Ever.

@nixCraft can confirm that has waken me up before.

@nixCraft great tip! 😃

@nixCraft Ayup, that’ll wake up quite a few people.

@nixCraft Want to stay up late too? Delete the prod database.

@nixCraft don’t threaten me with a “good” time 😈

@nixCraft I love the smell of unrecoverable data in the morning …

@nixCraft yup! Or the CLI equivalent disaster: rm -rf * once kept me up all night recovering data from backup.

@netrom 😂

@nixCraft does it spark joy?

@nixCraft if you want to check your sysadmin’s heart health, you can add this to root’s .bashrc:
alias rm=“sleep 10;rm”

@nixCraft, enough to change a parameter in a random value