We deleted the production database by accident
I&#x27;m appalled at the way some people here receive an honest postmortem of a human fuck-up. The top 3 comments, as I write this, can be summarized as &quot;no, it&#x27;s your fault and you&#x27;re stupid for making the fault&quot;.<p>This is not good! We don&#x27;t want to scare people into writing less of these. We want to encourage people to write more of them. An MBA style &quot;due to a human error, we lost a day of your data, we&#x27;re tremendously sorry, we&#x27;re doing everything in our power yadayada&quot; isn&#x27;t going to help anybody.<p>Yes, there&#x27;s all kinds of things they could have done to prevent this from happening. Yes, some of the things they did (not) do were clearly mistakes that a seasoned DBA or sysadmin would not make. Possibly they aren&#x27;t seasoned DBAs or sysadmins. Or they are but they still made a mistake.<p>This stuff happens. It sucks, but it still does. Get over yourselves and wish these people some luck.