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Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

AI or not, I feel like everybody has had "the incident" at some point. After that, you obsessively keep backups.

For me it was a my entire "Junior Project" in college, which was a music album. My windows install (Vista at that time - I know, vista was awful, but it was the only thing that would utilize all 8gb of my RAM because x64 XP wasn't really a thing) bombed out, and I was like "no biggie, I keep my OS on one drive and all of my projects on the other, I'll just reformat and reinstall Windows"

Well... I had two identical 250gb drives and formatted the wrong one.

Woof.

I bought an unformat tool that was able to recover mostly everything, but I lost all of my folder structure and file names. It was just like 000001.wav, 000002.wav etc. I was able to re-record and rebuild but man... Never made that mistake again. Like I said. I now obsessively backup. Stacks of drives, cloud storage. Drives in divverent locations etc.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

AI or not, I feel like everybody has had "the incident" at some point. After that, you obsessively keep backups.

Yup!

Also totally unrelated helpful tip- triple check your inputs and outputs when using dd to clone a drive. dd works great to clone an old drive onto a new blank one. It is equally efficient at cloning a blank drive full of nothing but 0s over an old drive that has some 1s mixed in.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

And that's a great example where a GUI could be way better at showing you what's what and preventing such errors.

If you're automating stuff, sure, scripting is the way to go, but for one-off stuff like this seeing more than text and maybe throwing in a confirmation dialogue can't hurt - and the tool might still be using dd underneath.