Now a UK hosting provider got inspired and did almost the same: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/18/123reg_titsup_customer_vpss_gone/ Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2016-04-17 2:03 GMT-03:00 Howard Gibson <hgibson@eol.ca>:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:33:49 -0300 Mauro Souza <thoriumbr@gmail.com> wrote:
I saw this on Slashdot and on serverfault. He was using Ansible at the time, and all remote backups were mounted at that time, and wiped clean too.
Yes, catastrophic mistake, but he could recover almost all data with testdisk. I recovered a disk for a colleague once, could recover almost 95%. A journaled filesystem is very good for recovering things.
There used to be ads on the Linux Journal for something called Buttsaver from Lone Tar software. that recovered deleted UNIX/Linux files. The ads contained some nasty comments about voice mail, and a suggestion that you "call the cowboy". My search for "buttsaver+cowboy" brought up a Stormfront website, among other thing. A search for "buttsaver+lone+tar" brought up something about a women whose job title is "Chief fluffy Butt Saver", plus some very old websites.
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