Disaster recovery Memes

So Many Levels

7 days ago 199.2K views 0 shares

The five stages of grief, but make it hardware failure. Someone's hard drive went from "perfectly fine" to "abstract art installation" real quick. What starts as a normal HDD standing upright gradually transforms into increasingly creative interpretations of what a hard drive could be. First it's standing, then lying flat, then someone thought "what if we bent it a little?" and finally achieved the ultimate form: a hard drive sandwich with extra platters. The title "So Many Levels" is chef's kiss because it works on multiple levels itself (pun absolutely intended). Physical levels of the drive's position, levels of destruction, and levels of desperation when you realize your backup strategy was "I'll do it tomorrow." Fun fact: those shiny platters inside spin at 7200 RPM, which is roughly the same speed your heart rate reaches when you hear that clicking sound. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, but after seeing this, it clearly stands for "Really Avoid Inadequate Disaster-planning."

Backup Supremacy🤡

Security Devops Databases Backend

8 days ago 199.3K views 0 shares

When your company gets hit with a data breach: *mild concern*. But when they discover you've been keeping "decentralized surprise backups" (aka unauthorized copies of the entire production database on your personal NAS, three USB drives, and your old laptop from 2015): *chef's kiss*. The real galaxy brain move here is calling them "decentralized surprise backups" instead of what the security team will inevitably call them: "a catastrophic violation of data governance policies and possibly several federal laws." But hey, at least you can restore the system while HR is still trying to figure out which forms to fill out for the incident report. Nothing says "I don't trust our backup strategy" quite like maintaining your own shadow IT infrastructure. The 🤡 emoji is doing some heavy lifting here because this is simultaneously the hero move that saves the company AND the reason you're having a very awkward conversation with Legal.

Putting All Your Eggs In One Basket

Devops Linux Databases Backend Cloud

18 days ago 223.4K views 0 shares

The classic single point of failure scenario. Server goes down, and naturally the backup is stored on... the same server. It's like keeping your spare tire inside the car that just drove off a cliff. Some say redundancy is expensive, but you know what's more expensive? Explaining to management why the last 6 months of data just evaporated because someone thought "the server is pretty reliable though" was a solid disaster recovery plan. Pro tip: your backup strategy shouldn't require a séance to recover data.

Was Hiring My Friend A Mistake

Git Devops Programming Debugging

1 month ago 246.5K views 0 shares

When your friend's entire development philosophy is "make one version that works" and their disaster recovery plan is "ctrl+z", you know you're in for a wild ride! This is that chaotic developer who's never heard of Git because "why track versions when I can just not break things?" The absolute confidence of someone who codes without a safety net is both terrifying and oddly impressive. It's like watching someone juggle flaming chainsaws while saying "relax, I've never dropped one... yet."

Who Is Your God Now

Azure Devops Microsoft Programming Cloud

2 months ago 295.9K views 0 shares

That awkward moment when your "redundant" multi-cloud strategy implodes because you put all your eggs in the Azure basket too. Turns out having multiple points of failure isn't quite the same as having no single point of failure. Those 3 AM architecture meetings where everyone nodded along to "cloud diversity" suddenly feel like a cruel joke when you're frantically checking status pages while your CEO texts "is it just us?" Pro tip: Real redundancy means different technologies, not just different logos on your infrastructure diagram.

Backup Capacity Expectations Vs Reality

Databases Security Devops Backend Cloud

2 months ago 332.7K views 0 shares

When the CTO says "We've allocated sufficient backup storage" but your database grows faster than your budget. That tiny spare tire trying to support a monster truck of data is basically what happens when management thinks a 1TB drive will back up your 15TB production environment. Bonus points if they expect you to fit the logs too.

Cloud Redundancy Saves The Day

AWS Devops Programming Cloud

2 months ago 193.7K views 0 shares

The hero we didn't know we needed! While AWS is having a major outage and CTOs everywhere are sweating bullets, this clever dev is sitting pretty with their workloads in US-East-2. It's that galaxy brain moment when your paranoia about putting all your eggs in one availability zone finally pays off. Multi-region deployment strategy for the win! Everyone else is frantically updating their status page while you're just sipping coffee and watching your metrics stay gloriously flat.

Daddy What Did You Do In The Great AWS Outage Of 2025

AWS Devops Programming Databases Backend

2 months ago 275.2K views 2 shares

Daddy What Did You Do In The Great AWS Outage Of 2025

Future bedtime stories will feature tales of the mythical AWS outage of 2025. Dad sits there, thousand-yard stare, remembering how he just watched the status page turn red while half the internet collapsed because someone decided DynamoDB should be the single point of failure for... everything. The real heroes were the on-call engineers who had to explain to executives why their million-dollar systems were defeated by a database hiccup. Meanwhile, the rest of us just refreshed Twitter until that went down too.

Crisis Management: Developer Edition

Security Networking Devops Programming Databases

3 months ago 214.5K views 0 shares

Ah, corporate spin at its finest! This is the corporate PR team's playbook for turning catastrophic failures into marketing opportunities. "Customer data has been securely deleted" is just chef's kiss euphemism for "we lost everything and have no backups." My favorite is "community-driven stress testing" – because nothing says "we value our community" like letting them discover all the ways your code can spectacularly fail in production. After 15 years in this industry, I've written enough of these emails to recognize art when I see it. Remember folks, it's not "getting hacked" – it's just "backup powered by our volunteers" (aka random people on the dark web).

Backups Are Overrated

Security Networking Devops Cloud

3 months ago 233.7K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic "backups are overrated" followed by a complete national disaster. Nothing says "I told you so" quite like 647 government systems going offline simultaneously. And just when you thought it couldn't get worse, an SUV catches fire in the parking lot of the already-burned data center. It's like watching someone drop their phone in water, dry it in rice, then drop it in their soup. The cherry on top? The official in charge of "managing errors" decided gravity was the quickest way to resolve his ticket queue. Somewhere, a sysadmin who suggested redundant offsite backups is silently drinking coffee while watching the world burn.

What Is A Data Backup Worth?

Databases Security Devops Programming

3 months ago 197.9K views 0 shares

The value of backups follows the classic IT tragedy in three acts: Act I: "What's a backup worth?" you ask, staring at your perfectly functional system. Act II: "Nothing," you decide, because everything's working fine and storage costs money. Act III: After your production database spontaneously combusts at 4:30pm on a Friday before a holiday weekend, suddenly that backup is worth your entire career, marriage, and will to live. Funny how perspective changes when you're staring at the digital equivalent of a burning city.

The Backup Paradox

Devops Networking Security Backend Cloud

4 months ago 285.9K views 1 shares

The moment when you realize your disaster recovery plan was a single point of failure. "Server has crashed. Where is backup?" "On the server." That sinking feeling when you discover your brilliant backup strategy involved storing everything in the same place that just went up in flames. It's like keeping your spare house key... inside your house. Congratulations, you've achieved peak incompetence with minimal effort!

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