Corruption
2014-11-09 19:05:11.746828+01 by meuon 3 comments
At some point.. you have to deal with a client purposefully yanking power cords on servers just to corrupt the system. On their previous vendors system they could do it, restore the database from a backup from the previous day and pocket most of the cash received since then...
It seems to be collusion of a flock of cashiers and a lowly IT tech that worked weekends.
This weekend the cashiers and the IT technician involved learned about the offsite replication slave. Took me a while to merge it all back together, but no missing data. There is a nice chunk of Saturday cash sales missing.
It'll be interesting to watch this play out, from many many miles away.