https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/tags/disaster-recovery/Recent content in Disaster Recovery on ShadowfishHugo -- gohugo.ioen-us© 2026 Creeping depths of the deepSat, 01 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/the-great-database-wipeout/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/the-great-database-wipeout/<p>There is a specific kind of cold sweat known only to software engineers and database administrators.</p> <p>It happens in a microsecond. You press <strong>Enter</strong> in your terminal, expect a clean 3-millisecond query response, and instead watch the terminal freeze. You glance up at your tab title and realize with horror:</p> <p>You weren&rsquo;t connected to <code>staging</code>. You were connected to <code>production</code>.</p>