From an internal email of a very very big corporate company

Incident Background: BIGPROJECT has been unavailable since APAC SOD due to a data refresh activity being wrongly triggered in from UAT to Production environments.

Business Impact

1. BIGPROJECT is unavailable for all users in the bank
2. BIGPROJECT2 platform which sits on BIGPROJECT is unavailable this includes the Click-to-chat serviceCurrent Status
3. Initial attempt of flashback Database to restore from the last good restore point failed due to errors due to absence of flashback logs– this was a quicker option, but now ruled out.

• Currently going ahead with full restoration in the Primary database – this activity is tentatively supposed to take 8-9 hours (in place of 6 hours earlier mentioned)

[...manual recovery instruction follows... ]

After 5 hours in another email they dare to say:

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Ora figlio mio quando avrai l’età della Ragione, mi potrai chiedere come mai le votazioni on line dei cinque stelle non vanno mai bene (“Come mai papà? Capisco quando tu eri piccolo e c’era solo il C/64”…)…e io che rispondo? Scrivo un appunto e mi documento!

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