Git is distributed. What's on gitlab it's also on my 3 different machines. So I have 3 backups for the code. Not such a big deal except issues and PRs.

It's not the repo code which was lost. It was the code for the website itself.

IMO it's a huge deal. The lost data includes issue text and pr data. You likely don't have that distributed.

Also, don't forget that they are still not back up and they've been down for like 15-20 hours...

@darksideplease ok, didn't knew that.

@dfox yeah, I haven't relied so much on their issue tracker and that's why I'm not so affected.
I feel sorry for their reputation but I also can't understand how they went into this.

@tomb there is a tweet where they link to a google doc. Inside it is explained that someone made a few thousand different IPs log into the same user account, which put their database under pressure. They needed to resync/rebuild the DBs (i'm not a DB expert) but it didn't go as expected and an employee deleted a folder in the wrong DB. The good ol' too much privileges.

@darksideplease that sounds about right.

I think the real problem here wasn't that they made a mistake and deleted the data (which unfortunately does happen quite a bit) but it was that they had no restore process, broken backups, and no real process in place for bringing everything back online.