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Exactly. I'm ashamed that my first reaction reading this was to blame OP. But in the 2 min it took to read the post I had come full circle to wondering what kind of terribly run company would allow this to happen--I guess the type that hires philosophy majors straight out of college without vetting their engineering skills.


> the type that hires philosophy majors straight out of college without vetting their engineering skills.

Or hires them and then adequately educating them in software development.


Or one that doesn't have a process to ensure that backup and recovery procedures when something like this happens are as painless as possible.




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