[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[Mauro Souza]

Now a UK hosting provider got inspired and did almost the same:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/18/123reg_titsup_customer_vpss_gone/

Mauro
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2016-04-17 2:03 GMT-03:00 Howard Gibson <hgibson at eol.ca>:

> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:33:49 -0300
> Mauro Souza <thoriumbr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I saw this on Slashdot and on serverfault. He was using Ansible at the
> > time, and all remote backups were mounted at that time, and wiped clean
> too.
> >
> > Yes, catastrophic mistake, but he could recover almost all data with
> > testdisk. I recovered a disk for a colleague once, could recover almost
> > 95%. A journaled filesystem is very good for recovering things.
>
>    There used to be ads on the Linux Journal for something called
> Buttsaver from Lone Tar software. that recovered deleted UNIX/Linux files.
> The ads contained some nasty comments about voice mail, and a suggestion
> that you "call the cowboy".   My search for "buttsaver+cowboy" brought up a
> Stormfront website, among other thing.  A search for "buttsaver+lone+tar"
> brought up something about a women whose job title is "Chief fluffy Butt
> Saver", plus some very old websites.
>
>
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