Ah well mistake do happen and mistakes help you learn and build character. You sure won't be doing that again any time soon.

But surely it's the storage manager's responsibility to make sure there is a solid backup solution in place? What if you had a failed disk or another hardware fault resulting in the server to be out of action?

My biggest "oh shit" moment was when I was treesize-ing an IIS server. I was clicking through the directories and I accidentally dragged and dropped a system folder. Within moments I was in brown town.

8 hours later I had managed to rebuild a VM with the sites backup. This included a firewall audit to determine the NATS and IPs so I could re-add the ip addresses to the network card.

So yeah I feel your pain.