They backed up the database. Forgot 90,000 user uploads.
Marketplace, server died. Restore went perfectly — the postgres dump came back clean in 20 minutes. Then support tickets flooded in: every product photo, every avatar, every PDF was a broken link. The uploads folder (340GB) was never in the backup scope.
DB restored in 20 min. Re-collecting media from sellers: 5 months, ~30% never recovered.
Database backups without the file storage are half a backup. Half a parachute. Change my mind.
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They backed up the database. Forgot 90,000 user uploads.
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