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What is the Biggest IT Cockup You've Ever Made?
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In my first dev role about 10 years ago, the Lead (only other) Dev was editing files in production and expected that I would do the same.
I said, sod that I'm making a development environment. I exported production (my first job lads and I had no other access to the schema or any way of producing test data quickly) and imported into a dev version.
It failed because of some MySQL configuration values which after a quick google suggested I needed to add a flag, fair enough, I'll just drop this...
CEO - "Why is production down"
ME - *Gulp*
To be fair we restored from backup and I finished setting up dev environments, SCM, etc.Comment
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Originally posted by fool View PostIn my first dev role about 10 years ago, the Lead (only other) Dev was editing files in production and expected that I would do the same.
I said, sod that I'm making a development environment. I exported production (my first job lads and I had no other access to the schema or any way of producing test data quickly) and imported into a dev version.
It failed because of some MySQL configuration values which after a quick google suggested I needed to add a flag, fair enough, I'll just drop this...
CEO - "Why is production down"
ME - *Gulp*
To be fair we restored from backup and I finished setting up dev environments.The Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostSeems like you lived up to your user name on this occasionComment
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I am afraid to,admit I don't recall anytime I've fecked something up, minor or major. I'm the one who tends to catch everyone's elses possible feckups and don't make them myself.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI am afraid to,admit I don't recall anytime I've fecked something up, minor or major. I'm the one who tends to catch everyone's elses possible feckups and don't make them myself.Comment
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Originally posted by fool View PostIndeed, but it was a good time to learn the lesson that anyone can screw up...
I deleted a folder on a NW drive by being clumsy
Luckily was a small IT Dept, at the time, so got it restored without any issue.
I was always a lot more careful after thatThe Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostApart from your life, of course.
HTH
MFWhat happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostThe thread was about IT.
HTH
MFComment
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostCorrect and its funny you have just reminded me about something I did when I had just started in IT .
I deleted a folder on a NW drive by being clumsy
Luckily was a small IT Dept, at the time, so got it restored without any issue.
I was always a lot more careful after that
At the same place a guy deleted the main volume on a netapp that had all the LUNs for all the customer VMs that was sold as "Europes first cloud". No backups either. Had to call the vendor and ask them how to extract LUNs direct from the block storage.Comment
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