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2015-03-14

note: originally published 2012-08-22 at a different domain name and url.

I just accidentally dropped one of my production databases because I thought I was logged into my developement database.

I dropped my checkingbalance database, while operating on it to write a blog post about it!

I do have a nightly mysqldump backup in place.  Now I need to physically go to where my backup driver is, get a copy of last night’s backup and restore the checkingbalance database, table and data from the backup,  before the nightly mysqldump overwrites the backup file again tonight.


[2019 edit: Moved to: https://i̶n̶v̶e̶s̶t̶o̶r̶w̶o̶r̶k̶e̶r̶.̶c̶o̶m̶/2015/... .html.]