https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/17/veeam_forums_data_loss/ -- DevOps team did the dirty on a database
Data management software vendor Veeam has admitted to an embarrassing oopsie: messing up a restoration job and erasing data. The good news is this wasn’t a mission-critical mistake, or the result of problems with the company’s products. The company’s error was disclosed on its forums in a February 11 thread in which a product management chap reported “we have noticed some topics and comments from the past 24 hours are currently missing.” As is often the case with vendor forums, Veeam’s mix comments from staffers and customers and the result is a heady brew of product support info,commentary, and company news. It’s therefore possible that useful support info or product roadmaps could have gone missing. ... Once they did so, they discovered the following root cause:
During this morning's forum maintenance window, a backup of the forum database from one day ago (Monday, February 10th) was mistakenly restored by internal infrastructure DevOps team over the production database, which did not experience any issues and did not require restoration. As a result of significant changes (new topics and comments) made since the time of the restore, we are unable to integrate the topics and comments from yesterday and todays [sic] morning into the current version.
Oops. ...
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