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After a junior engineer mistakenly ran an unguarded rm -rf command that wiped an entire production server—including MySQL and Tomcat—I documented the step‑by‑step recovery using ext3grep, extundelete, and MySQL binlog, highlighting the lessons learned for future operations.
After a junior staff member mistakenly ran an unchecked rm‑rf command that erased an entire production server, the author details a step‑by‑step recovery using ext3grep, custom shell scripts, extundelete, and MySQL binlog replay, and concludes with lessons on backup, monitoring, and change management.
This article recounts a production server data loss caused by an erroneous rm -rf command, describes how ext3grep and extundelete were used to attempt file restoration, and explains how MySQL binlog replay finally recovered critical data while sharing lessons learned for future incident handling.
This article recounts a production‑server disaster caused by an unchecked rm -rf command, details the step‑by‑step data‑recovery attempts using ext3grep, extundelete and MySQL binlogs, and shares hard‑earned lessons to prevent similar incidents.