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9 months ago
So, I just erased our JIRA database

I am working as a DevOps for about 2 months and a half. Today I was supposed to migrate our JIRA to another server, the old server hard drive was mounted on another computer using an Ubuntu live CD.

Super simple, right? I was trying to export the postgres database and I used a chown to change the data directory owner's to the postgres user. The folder simply vanished and there's no backup.

I'm fucked. Did anyone passed through a similar situation?

[Update] Thanks to /u/Happy_Recognition's comment, I located the automated JIRA's backup on the server and I was able to restore it on my local machine as a test. Thank you for all the amazing support, and also you guys made me laugh a lot.

Curiously, the CTO himself didn't know about these backups. JIRA was set up here 5 years ago by a guy who no longer works for the company, and it seems that nobody messed with the setup, since it was working perfectly. For anyone wondering why we don't use a cloud service, like Amazon, it's because we're actually a cloud service provider company!