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Comment by laurent92 | Hacker News Reader

Let me bet: Rebuilding from Jira email notifications. Yes, the diffs in the notifications.

I've actually done exactly that many years ago for a self-hosted Jira installation that didn't have any backups. You can bet we had backups with regular testing after that.

I would have just quit if I had that landed on me.

Honestly it doesn't sound too difficult and like a challenge to script something fun. To me. If you ever find yourself in that situation, email is in my profile and we'll work something out :)

Whoops, looks like I commented on the wrong chain.

Not much on this on the internet.

Gray•Duffy, LLP Settles Two Massive International Data Loss Claims Arising From Computer Server Failures

Arc Touch, Inc. vs. Atlassian PTY, Ltd

http://m.grayduffylaw.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrayduffylaw.co...

https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/09/atlassian_cloud_stora...

But are they gonna be able to accomplish anything without Jira guiding their projects?

> Yes, the diffs in the notifications.

In my limited experience these diffs can be missing information. I recently had to reconstruct an issue description using these email diffs after two people where editing the description at the same time and it was not 100% accurate, several lines were missing. Going to the 'history' tab on the issue I was able to get the missing lines however, if all you have are emails though you might be out of luck.

Its like a reverse event sourced system

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