On: Postmortem of database outage of January 31

[animex]

What do you think would have happened if you had total data loss/failure?

[sb8244 → animex]

I don't work for gitlab.

Isn't that a put you out of business moment? I guess there is enterprise installations but the main website would be toast.

I guess there is the chance there were still older backups taken intentionally or by chance that would have been worse but recoverable from

[gtaylor → sb8244]

Most of their income probably comes from customers that run their own GitLab Enterprises installs. This would have really sucked for all of their non paying users, though.