Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

[YamiYukiSenpai]

HAHAHAHAAHAHA
RIP

OMG I'm so mean

[ShadowCaptain]

Sounds like the kind of thing I would do

[bigneo]

11 hours ago, unidentical said:

Guaranteed he didn't swear. Mistakes that you swear about are small ones.

 

When he saw what happened he probably went dead quiet, jaw slack, might have puked a bit, probably cried.

Brain lag/freeze for 5 seconds to catch up and swallow what happened. After the swallow, he felt the heartbeat that he never felt before and then he realised he is in deep shit which was no joke.

[Coaxialgamer]

omg. 

 

And people thought deleting system32 was bad. 

[goodtofufriday]

32 minutes ago, bigneo said:

Brain lag/freeze for 5 seconds to catch up and swallow what happened. After the swallow, he felt the heartbeat that he never felt before and then he realised he is in deep shit which was no joke.

Had that feeling when a user opened up cryptolocker on his desktop and I saw it proliferating into our nas via a mapped drive. Ran to the network closet and ripped out the patch to the nas. 

I got half the data. Thankfully I make daily backups. 

[Real_PhillBert]

We used to have a ~65YO engineer who deleted our entire part number directory, not once, not twice but three times in the last 4 years.

 

Obviously all of that is backed up, in our case hourly, so we only really lost ~1.5 hours of work, but still. We'd all be working and try to open another part and suddenly there was nothing in our folders... Mother Fucker.

[dalekphalm]

Honestly, a command like that shouldn't even be possible. If it's going to wipe EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, there should be some sort of confirmation - I know, he used the switch to override the normal confirmations, but still - there should be a backup for that kind of command.

 

But still - it seems it was his own fault.

[Tomsen]

Knowing I have many custom bash scripts running across many customers application servers, I won't be executing any 'rm -rf' command without having some sort of error-checking. Things can get real ugly real quick, could be anything from variables not expanding as you imagined, you use wrong format and/or parameters for the command or whatever.

[suicidalfranco]

5 hours ago, bigneo said:

Brain lag/freeze for 5 seconds to catch up and swallow what happened. After the swallow, he felt the heartbeat that he never felt before and then he realised he is in deep shit which was no joke.

tfw when i accidentally wipe my main drive... yesterday

[LAwLz]

What's that I smell? *sniff sniff*

Oh, it's a very strong scent of bullshit.

I don't know which version of rm he uses but it have had a fail-safe for this for ages. It just does not work.

 

 

1 hour ago, dalekphalm said:

Honestly, a command like that shouldn't even be possible. If it's going to wipe EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, there should be some sort of confirmation - I know, he used the switch to override the normal confirmations, but still - there should be a backup for that kind of command.

 

But still - it seems it was his own fault.

There is a fail-safe. But even if that didn't exist it would still have been 100% his own fault, and we should not have to implement things to stop this idiocy.

 

1) He ran it as root for some reason.

2) He deliberately wrote the script so that it would automatically confirm the action without any warning.

3) He did not have any checks in place to prevent deleting everything.

4) He did not define the variables before using them, which is an extremely basic thing you should always, always, always do.

5) There was no testing in a safe environment involved. "Yeah, let's run this script which includes code for deleting files, and let's run that on all our backup server without ever having tested the script".

It's not just one fuck up he did, it was 5.

 

It's like pouring gasoline over yourself, then go lie down in your bed which is made out of 100% dry hay, and then try to light a cigarette with a flamethrower. It's not so much an "accident" as it is natural selection.

[Nowak]

And the award for the biggest fuck-up of the year goes to...

[Stefan1024]

This is why one uses tabe drives for backups. It takes forever to clear the entire tape. A lot of time to stop it