[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 02:06:32PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> That is why you test your script and just echo commands like the above to
> check the script will fill in the details appropriately. The script could
> also have built a path and stored it in an environment variable then checked
> the variable contents before use.

Yep, of course.

> Also, for this to have deleted everything it would have had to have been run
> with root privileges.

And it was.

> Its one thing for this to happen to a home machine. For a company server you
> would expect to have more than one backup and never hook up more than one
> backup to the live servers at a time.

Of course you should have more than one backup device.  As long as it
is connected to the live system, it is NOT a backup device.  It is only
a backup device when it is no longer connected.  Seems this person didn't
understand that.

> As has been suggested, it is likely a hoax. Perhaps an April Fools joke that
> someone picked up and ran with not realizing it was a joke.

I wish I could believe that, but I suspect it really did happen.
Some people should not be designing and running systems.

-- 
Len Sorensen