▲ 1280 ▼ Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 5 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 343 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 months ago (5 children) Repeat after me: "An untested backup does not exist" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago (4 children) Not to give myself more credit than I deserve, but I did test them upon setup, and had restored from backup 2 years ago. I didn't have any ongoing checks other than to ensure a backup happened. I have since instituted yearly checks of the backups themselves, but I did feel dumb when I realized how vulnerable my data was. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) Hehe, I ment no disrespect towards you, I just find that to be an excellent expression to explain the importance of testing backups to non tech people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago Oh, for sure. And I really should've known better. No offense taken. permalink fedilink source parent [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 child) So in the event of a failure, you'd be okay with reverting to that last known good backup from a year ago? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago Yes, but also I have to draw a line somewhere. I have a daily backup process. Some data is backed up to multiple places. I have backups of my backups. I cannot ensure that all three of the daily backups I run are fully restorable. I would love to know with 100% certainty that they all execute perfectly, but at the end of the day I have to trust the tools and processes I put in place for backups. A yearly checkup is probably more than sufficient for my purposes. I'm sure for certain businesses or sectors they need to be more on top of things, but I could manage just fine if all of it disappeared tomorrow. It wouldn't be awesome for me, but it'd be manageable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago (4 children) Not to give myself more credit than I deserve, but I did test them upon setup, and had restored from backup 2 years ago. I didn't have any ongoing checks other than to ensure a backup happened. I have since instituted yearly checks of the backups themselves, but I did feel dumb when I realized how vulnerable my data was. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) Hehe, I ment no disrespect towards you, I just find that to be an excellent expression to explain the importance of testing backups to non tech people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago Oh, for sure. And I really should've known better. No offense taken. permalink fedilink source parent [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 child) So in the event of a failure, you'd be okay with reverting to that last known good backup from a year ago? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago Yes, but also I have to draw a line somewhere. I have a daily backup process. Some data is backed up to multiple places. I have backups of my backups. I cannot ensure that all three of the daily backups I run are fully restorable. I would love to know with 100% certainty that they all execute perfectly, but at the end of the day I have to trust the tools and processes I put in place for backups. A yearly checkup is probably more than sufficient for my purposes. I'm sure for certain businesses or sectors they need to be more on top of things, but I could manage just fine if all of it disappeared tomorrow. It wouldn't be awesome for me, but it'd be manageable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) Hehe, I ment no disrespect towards you, I just find that to be an excellent expression to explain the importance of testing backups to non tech people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago Oh, for sure. And I really should've known better. No offense taken. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago Oh, for sure. And I really should've known better. No offense taken. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 child) So in the event of a failure, you'd be okay with reverting to that last known good backup from a year ago? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago Yes, but also I have to draw a line somewhere. I have a daily backup process. Some data is backed up to multiple places. I have backups of my backups. I cannot ensure that all three of the daily backups I run are fully restorable. I would love to know with 100% certainty that they all execute perfectly, but at the end of the day I have to trust the tools and processes I put in place for backups. A yearly checkup is probably more than sufficient for my purposes. I'm sure for certain businesses or sectors they need to be more on top of things, but I could manage just fine if all of it disappeared tomorrow. It wouldn't be awesome for me, but it'd be manageable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago Yes, but also I have to draw a line somewhere. I have a daily backup process. Some data is backed up to multiple places. I have backups of my backups. I cannot ensure that all three of the daily backups I run are fully restorable. I would love to know with 100% certainty that they all execute perfectly, but at the end of the day I have to trust the tools and processes I put in place for backups. A yearly checkup is probably more than sufficient for my purposes. I'm sure for certain businesses or sectors they need to be more on top of things, but I could manage just fine if all of it disappeared tomorrow. It wouldn't be awesome for me, but it'd be manageable. permalink fedilink source parent