A search index that had been incrementally updated for three years, with no test that the increments were correct. The diff is the point rather than the rebuild…
A second copy in a second provider, and a bill that arrived a month later showing the transfer cost more than the storage. Egress pricing makes a naive…
An encrypted backup is a backup you cannot restore unless the key is somewhere the restore procedure can reach. Encryption at rest is right and it introduces a…
Four years of nightly backups, never restored, and the first restore produced a database missing one table. The exclusion was reasonable when it was added and became wrong…
The default flushes and syncs the log on every commit, which is the only setting that survives an operating system crash without losing transactions. Setting this to 2…