tarotgal

tg writing from work...

Yeah. I took the morning off because I felt sick and around noon I got a call from a coworker. He had inadvertently deleted records in one of our most important, irreplaceable databases. I tried to get to our server from my home laptop but the application wasn't working. So I raced back to work. The problem is, it was Thursday and that's when I do a manual backup of databases! So if it had happened on a Friday, no worries. But this was a Thursday morning and last Thursday I hadn't backed them up which was my fault since I had taken that afternoon off. And I should have known he would mess it up (it isn't the first time something like this has happened with him) so before letting him use the database I should have backed it up or made a copy and let him use the copy instead of the original. But, stupid me, I didn't. So it was my fault essentially if we lost the whole database. LUCKILY, I'd set up automatic backup (I couldn't remember if I'd done that when I set up the new server. I thought I might have, but I wasn't sure) so it had backed up Thursday morning at 1am. So we didn't lose anything and I didn't lose my job. But I was really very scared for a while there. And since then I've been backing everything up constantly. LOL