I’m sending this to my boss to remind him why monitoring disk space is vital.

  • ShunkW@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I used to be a sysadmin, now a software developer. At one of my old jobs for a massive corporation, they decided to consolidate several apps’ db servers onto one host. We found out about this after it had already happened because they at least properly setup cname records so it was seamless to us. Some data was lost though, but having literally billions of records in our db, we didn’t notice until it triggered a scream test for our users. We were also running up against data storage limits

    They ended up undoing the change which caused us a data merge nightmare that lasted several full workdays.