The Day I Ran rm -rf / on a Production Server (With No Backups)
A long-time Linux user, a physical production server with no backups, and one command that wasn't quite the one everyone fears. Here's the outage I caused — and how we clawed it back.
A long-time Linux user, a physical production server with no backups, and one command that wasn't quite the one everyone fears. Here's the outage I caused — and how we clawed it back.
Twenty years on the pager, told as dark comedy — the go-bag, the 3 a.m. dread, the gloriously dumb false alarms, and the one lesson that outranks every runbook.