A dark and snowy night a bunch of databases on a server just vanished. This was on a server that was still in development, but was part of the billing system for a huuuge company, and it was under a lot of scrutiny. The files are just gone. So I contact the DBA and the backup group. For whatever reason, they can't pull it off local backups, so tapes had to be pulled in from Iron Mountain.
As I said above, a dark and snowy night. Took Iron Mountain 4 hours to get the tapes across town. The DBA and I finally get the database up around 8am the next morning. I investigate, but can't find any system reason for the databases vanishing, the DBA can't either.
2 weeks later, the same thing happens.
I eventually track it down to a junior developer who has been logged in and has on several occasions run this: "cd /" followed by "rm -rf /home/username/projectname/ *" Note the space before the star. On further investigation, I find the database group installed all the Oracle data directories with mode 777.
As I said above, a dark and snowy night. Took Iron Mountain 4 hours to get the tapes across town. The DBA and I finally get the database up around 8am the next morning. I investigate, but can't find any system reason for the databases vanishing, the DBA can't either.
2 weeks later, the same thing happens.
I eventually track it down to a junior developer who has been logged in and has on several occasions run this: "cd /" followed by "rm -rf /home/username/projectname/ *" Note the space before the star. On further investigation, I find the database group installed all the Oracle data directories with mode 777.