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Torchlight

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12. This reminds me of when our company lost its entire database

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:45 AM

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back in ’97 due to a catastrophic server failure. It took us four months to recover everything from backups. That experience was a hard teacher (but it’s why I’ve done regular backups ever since).

Tech keeps moving forward, whether we’re ready for it or not. We don’t always get a say in how these tools evolve or are deployed, but we’re left to deal with the consequences all the same.

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