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Time for a Quick Rant

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This is an actual quote from what we can only assume is a functional human being:

The database is very big so we stopped taking backup’s.

Eight lords a leaping are you kidding me? Seriously! Seriously? By the Great Gu and all the Valkyries in Valhalla, you stopped taking backups of your PRODUCTION database because it was “very big.” And I’ll put down Brobdingnagian stacks of cash that “very big” in this case is probably 200-500gb or at worst 1-2tb. People, assuming you have enough brain stem intact to regulate breathing, you must know, you must by all the sparkly vampires in Twighlight KNOW that you need to have backups. Right? I mean, nothing ever goes wrong on this shiny marble we call Dirt, does it? No one would EVER just run a DELETE statement in production without a WHERE clause, would they you hairy bottomed tree climbing mouth breather? And I’m sure that, if it happened, you could just blow magic unicorn powder at the server in order to get the company’s billing list back, right? Because without that backup, you’re relying on the undivided attention, and total positive intent, of Odin and Freya to ensure that you never, oh, I don’t know, lose power causing the rocker arm on the disk to bash down repeatedly on the platter like Thor’s Hammer on an Ice Giant’s head, with similar results for your database. Until you have so much data that EMC hosts your company’s holiday party, for free, there is enough disk space, somewhere, to take a backup of your database.

Now, get out there and get it done. Don’t make me travel to each and every one of your places of work with the lead-weighted hickory learning bat to lay some education up side your beanie holder. Please, just take a backup.

I really mean it this time. Backup your database

I really mean it this time. Backup your database

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