Too Perfect a Mirror

Carewolf writes "Jeff Mitchell writes on his blog about what almost became 'The Great KDE Disaster Of 2013.' It all started as simple update of the root git server and ended up with a corrupt git repository automatically mirrored to every mirror and deleting every copy of most KDE repositories. It ends by discussing what the problem is with git --mirror and how you can avoid similar problems in the future."

The 'K' stands for ...

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, calling it a disaster really depends on your point of view.

Re:Sounds like...

[bmo]

There is nothing wrong with using the internet as a backup machine - with the caveat that you know what you're doing and you're using the right service/tool properly.

Personally, I have all my very important documents in an encrypted archive labelled "Area_51_Aliens_Proof.rar" with the note "It is dangerous for me to provide the key, but in the event of my death or imprisonment, a key will be provided EXPOSING EVERYTHING!!!" and uploaded to various paranormal bittorrent trackers and mirrored by various denizens of /x/.

I expect my documents to be archived in perpetuity.

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BMO

Re:No backups?!

[fikx]

Hey, they had their backups setup....just switch some terms around and you can see how they actually DID have backups like they claim. sync happened every 20 minutes....so they kept multiple copies of one backup that was overwritten every 20 minutes. So, their window to detect and fix the issue before overwriting the backup is 20 minutes. no problem, right? What could possibly go wrong?
:)