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Here's an interesting story about the failure of backup procedures and data loss at GitLab - an open source GitHub competitor.
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<div>The Register 1st Feb 2017: <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/01/gitlab_data_loss/">GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail</a></div>
<div>Also see the story in <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-suffers-major-backup-failure-after-data-deletion-incident/">
TechCrunch</a></div>
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<div>The Register 2nd Feb 2017: <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/02/gitlabcom_has_found_and_restored_from_an_accidental_backup/">GitLab.com luckily found some of its lost data on a staging server</a></div>
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