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GitLab Bites the Big One!

Let this be a cautionary tale for anyone who things wanna-be operating systems on wanna-be computers using software written under a fraudulent methodology named Agile is fit to run a business on.

GitLab.com Melts Down

There is a reason real computers with real operating systems have a /VERIFY clause on their BACKUP command. There is a reason their backups take longer, because quality matters. On a real operating system using a real database you cannot “delete the file” because the database engine has it locked. You have to physically drop the database from within the cluster wide database engine.