{"id":1837,"date":"2021-06-07T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gitprotect.io\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:41:53","slug":"do-you-think-that-your-git-repositories-are-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gitprotect.io\/blog\/do-you-think-that-your-git-repositories-are-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Think That Your Git Repositories Are Secure?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this post, we will discuss failure scenarios that may adversely affect the company’s operations. Why say “we are using Git, so we have a backup” is as confusing as saying “RAID-1 keeps us safe”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Several times during my professional path I have come across the statement that Git is a form of backup<\/strong> and I understand the thinking behind such words. I imagine that I am working on the application code for the main client in a company and I managed to improve it and speed up its operation by 40%. In short, I made a revolutionary change in the app of removing the duplicate loop (Who of us wasn’t there), and with a smile on my face, thinking about the future raise, I go to sleep. I need to get up in 3 hours!<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the morning full of larks, I open my laptop and, to my surprise, a blue screen of death appears. Considering that every programmer is also a master of everything in IT, I start my laptop and after a few moments of diagnostics, I already know that the HDD has decided not to cooperate with me anymore. This is where a thought strikes, as heavy as Bitcoin’s recent value. I didn’t commit to a git, and the disk recovery applications I know show me nothingness in all its glory. At this point, there is only professional data recovery<\/a> from the damaged medium, i.e. the cost of several dozen thousand. Of course, there is always the possibility of rewriting the code or the total resignation. Maybe, in this case, telling myself that I slept all night and the rest is just a dream is the best solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now consider scenario number two. We wrote a serious amount of code which we committed to servers in our company and we did that with a smile on our faces as we contemplated a future pay rise. We have been considering putting the new system on a laptop for months, so taking advantage of the euphoric mood, we proceed to action. After all, we have our code on the company’s repo, so we’re safe. In the morning, after waking up, we learn that a fire broke out in the data centre. We go to the repo, enter git log –online and we already know that with the fire we said goodbye to our commit. Do you think that such situations do not take place? The OVH server room burned down a few months ago\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Non, les donn\u00e9es contenues dans les serveurs de SBG2 ne seront vraisemblablement pas r\u00e9cup\u00e9rables.
Mais si vous utilisez le Backup FTP #OVH<\/a>, vos sauvegardes sont dans un autre datacenter. (Les photos sont des pompiers) https:\/\/t.co\/tRonks8qIw<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/EL5BcMjbc7<\/a><\/p>— Xavier Garreau (@xgarreau) March 10, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>