#backups
grep -l "backups" /portfolio/* · 2 entriesBackups we had never restored
After a very public database loss that year, I tried restoring our own lab backups. Several of them had been empty for months.
1 min readWhen the storage failure took the backups with it
What I took from the April 2011 EBS outage: a network change, a re-mirroring storm, and why one availability zone wasn't as isolated as people assumed.