CloudRaz

👻 Picture this:

we were running an on-premises system, managing payroll and critical HR data, thinking we had everything under control. Daily backups were automated, our RAID-5 configuration was solid, and all looked great… until it wasn’t.

One morning, a junior IT team member came in early for routine server checks. He noticed flashing lights on our disk array and thought, “No big deal, it’s RAID-5; I can swap out the failing disks.”

Here’s the twist: He pulled out two drives simultaneously and messed up their order. 💥 Boom. The entire system went down.

Panic set in, and worse yet, our last few days of backups. Corrupted. We had a 36-hour marathon trying to recover lost payroll and invoicing data. We had to physically send disks to a recovery center, hoping they could restore what we couldn’t.

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Key Takeaway: Backups aren’t just about having them; they need to be tested regularly. Don’t rely on automation alone—test restores should be part of your process. 💡 If we had known our backups were failing days before, we could have avoided the catastrophe.