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Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs:
[On March 12th], IT staff at the Victoria University of Wellington started a maintenance procedure aimed at reclaiming space on the university network—in theory, by removing the profiles of students who no longer attend the university. The real impact, unfortunately, was much larger—affecting students, faculty, and staff across the university.
The New Zealand university's student newspaper reported the issue pretty thoroughly this Wednesday, although from a non-IT perspective. It sounds like an over-zealous Active Directory policy went out of bounds—the university's Digital Solutions department (what most places would refer to as Information Technology, or IT) declared that files stored on the university network drives, or on Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage, were "fully protected."
A grad student reported that not "only files on the desktop were gone" but "my whole computer had been reset, too," which would be consistent with an AD operation removing her user profile from the machine entirely—in such a case, a user would be able to log in to the PC, but into a completely "clean" profile that looked factory new.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday March 21 2021, @02:48PM (5 children)
Always have your own backup copies somewhere you can get to them fast. Also, don't trust colleagues. The SCM system is not for backup. Don't let them check in code that doesn't compile simply because they can't be bothered to keep a proper backup, or because the corporate system is inadequate.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday March 22 2021, @11:33AM (4 children)
> The SCM system is not for backup
Use a DVCS like git and then this is not a problem. Everyone gets their own fork or branch.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday March 22 2021, @10:19PM (3 children)
Doesn't stop people from pushing broken code upstream for "backup" though.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday March 23 2021, @11:36AM (2 children)
Sure, then the only solution is wet work.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday March 23 2021, @01:11PM (1 child)
What's wet work?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Informative) by PiMuNu on Tuesday March 23 2021, @02:50PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetwork [wikipedia.org]