Had a colleague do this to the local AD server years ago.
Thankfully they pulled the plug before the changes could propagate through the network completely but it still took 3 days to recover the data and restore the AD server.
Yikes. At least it was only 3 days and not weeks or months of cleanup trying to rebuild shit!
You might like this little video then. Well, it’s 10 minutes long but still. It’s a story detailing a Dev who deleted their entire production database. Real story that actually happened. If you went through something similar then you definitely gonna relate a little.
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Had a colleague do this to the local AD server years ago.
Thankfully they pulled the plug before the changes could propagate through the network completely but it still took 3 days to recover the data and restore the AD server.
That’s on the company for not having a proper disaster recovery plan in place.
Or DR test was literally the CIO wiping a critical server or DB and we had to have it back up in under an hour.
To be fair to the company it was a friday afternoon when said person ran a script
Read-only Fridays.
Yikes. At least it was only 3 days and not weeks or months of cleanup trying to rebuild shit!
You might like this little video then. Well, it’s 10 minutes long but still. It’s a story detailing a Dev who deleted their entire production database. Real story that actually happened. If you went through something similar then you definitely gonna relate a little.