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[idwiyo]

122. Well... I can tell you a little story about a database.

Imagine a really big company. HUGE actually.
The amount of data it produces everyday is counted in hundreds of TB.
Everyday at night company does backup and synchronises its several data centres.
Or so they think.
Unknown to everyone but couple of low level IT techs the backup never finishes it job because there is not enough time to finish it. It programmed to stop at a particular time. It stops and dumps whatever it managed to transfer because its not finished.
The IT Techs never told anyone because they didn't understand the error message and they are not paid enough to even bother to understand. It's low wage dead end job and they really don't give a flying fuck.

There is only one master database. The backup databases are not synced and contain the original startup file and few newer back ups that managed to finish in allocated time. That's all.

The data centre where main database is located suffers from multiple hard drive failure due to power surge because someone bypassed UPS system. Fuck knows why, no one knows whom.

Poof, all the data for the last couple or more years is gone.

Shit like that happens more often the anyone would ever admit.

I don't have to tell you what will happen if someone tries to audit this company.