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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)
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[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand what Railway is supposed to do here? If deleting a drive also deletes the backup, what's the point of the backup?

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I save space on backups by symlinking my data in a backup directory. It’s never failed!

[–] four@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You obviously should do a hardlink, as this is much safer

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's the joke

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I XOR all the bytes of my data and write down the resulting byte value on a post-it as our backup.

Saves tons of space, it's fully offline and I never had any problem with it.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hyperconverged backups FTW!

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It saves on storage costs!