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Tag: backups

Pixar’s Toy Story 2 Deletion: The rm Command, the Broken Backup, and the Copy That Saved the Film

Pixar nearly lost a huge portion of Toy Story 2 after a recursive Unix deletion met an unreliable backup path, until an off-site workstation supplied an independent recovery copy.

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Ma.gnolia 2009: The Bookmarking Service That Lost Its Database and Its Backups

Ma.gnolia's 2009 collapse showed why a synchronized copy is not automatically a backup: corruption reached the service's recovery path, and user bookmarks became irretrievable.

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