'Check Your Backups Work' Day
Imagine if you&#x27;re the CEO of Gitlab and seeing this right now. I think showing compassion and solidarity may be a better response. The problem of restoring non-existing backups should be treated as a more serious problem in our industry. This happens too often and not because people who made them were careless people but because to catch any errors when the backups are not working can take unreasonable amount of time and even then it could still just stop working one day.<p>We should probably treat this issue as something more like a disease like high blood pressure, namely, you don&#x27;t know you have it, but it is probably doing irreparable damage to your internal organs. If we had no name for the disease or understanding of it we would just die at an earlier age without an obvious cause.<p>Let&#x27;s identify the diseases of this sort in our industry and work on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of them instead of just saying you should have been more careful.