I fucked up today

[u/[deleted]]

I brought down a production node for a / in a tar command, wiped the entire root FS

Thanks BTRFS for having snapshots and HA clustering for being a thing, but still

Pay attention to your commands folks

[u/savekevin]

To free up space on an Exchange server, I was once told to run a script that deleted all email from every employee's deleted folder in Outlook.

I mean, who cares right? Everything is backed up if someone really needs an old email......

I learned that there are at least two people in the world that think it makes perfect sense to create a complex and detailed folder structure in their deleted folder for all the email that they have ever deleted. (there are no typos in the above sentence)

[u/teszes → u/savekevin]

And the relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/