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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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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Not to give myself more credit than I deserve, but I did test them upon setup, and had restored from backup 2 years ago. I didn't have any ongoing checks other than to ensure a backup happened. I have since instituted yearly checks of the backups themselves, but I did feel dumb when I realized how vulnerable my data was.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    So in the event of a failure, you'd be okay with reverting to that last known good backup from a year ago?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yes, but also I have to draw a line somewhere. I have a daily backup process. Some data is backed up to multiple places. I have backups of my backups. I cannot ensure that all three of the daily backups I run are fully restorable. I would love to know with 100% certainty that they all execute perfectly, but at the end of the day I have to trust the tools and processes I put in place for backups. A yearly checkup is probably more than sufficient for my purposes. I'm sure for certain businesses or sectors they need to be more on top of things, but I could manage just fine if all of it disappeared tomorrow. It wouldn't be awesome for me, but it'd be manageable.

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