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UK Host 123-reg accidentally deleted "an unspecified number" of client sites
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36072240
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/18/123reg_titsup_customer_vpss_gone/?mt=1460978695879
Now... was this the guy who rm -rf'ed everything?
Seems they can't even restore from some backups - sad times for all over there.
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the guy who said he rm -rf'ed everything was a hoax
https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/8696/what-to-do-with-the-rm-rf-hoax-question
Yea, it just seems to be very close together between the 2 incidents. Probably not linked though.
Sad story. If VM host disk got rm -rf / , which type of virturation is harder to do data recovery? OVZ/LXC or KVM/XEN?
Yeah, that's what I'd claim too after I became famous for doing a stupid thing.
The 123-reg support is so unprofessional as they can't calculate properly and I personally had a dispute regarding renewal of domain name as I did the payments a couple months in advance and they did calculation from date of invoice payment instead of domain name registration or renewal date.
I would say OpenVZ would be harder due to the shared filesystem/partition - the deleted files will soon get overwritten by other container's actions.
On KVM you might be able to try data recovery on the LVM image or whatever - I'm no KVM expert!