Worthless Backups
How good are your backups?
I thought mine were pretty dang good. I found out otherwise. I had the following two lines running nightly for my backups.
# Make MySQL backup
mysqldump -u root -p "$(/.sql.pwd)" --all-databases | gzip > /var/mysqldump/mysql-$(date +%F).gz
# Delete old copies
find /var/mysqldump …