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GitLab Says It Found Lost Data On a Staging Server (theregister.co.uk)
GitLab.com, the wannabe GitHub alternative that went down hard earlier this week and reported data loss, has said that some data is gone but that its services are now operational again. From a report The Register: The incident did not result in Git repos disappearing. Which may be why the company's PR reps characterised the lost data as "peripheral metadata that was written during a 6-hour window". But in a prose account of the incident, GitLab says "issues, merge requests, users, comments, snippets, etc" were lost. The Register imagines many developers may not be entirely happy with those data types being considered peripheral to their efforts. GitLab's PR flaks added that the incident impacted "less than 1% of our user base." But the firm's incident log says 707 users have lost data. The startup, which has raised over $25 million, added that it lost six hours of data and asserted that the lost doesn't include users' code.
The hard part is having a backup plan for your "cloud." Some places make it easy, but some make it VERY hard. Never used gitlab so I can not comment... But if YOU do not have a backup, there are no backups. As Codespaces users found out, and now Gitlab, kinda...
To lose more of your data.
"GitLab.com, the wannabe GitHub alternative" ... Uhm, is that really accurate?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
"pr flacks"
number doubting '"less than 1% of our user base." But the firm's incident log says 707 users have lost data"
Why the negative tone? I am not a coder. I do not use GitLab or GitHub except for an occasional download. However, generally competition is good. Sure this company lost data.. so do many. The real questions are is this indicative of a systemic issue or just a one time occurrence. I just don't see why this level of negativity is being pushed against this company.
Silence is a state of mime.