Update: It appears this may have been a hoax.
Oops.
I run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a
rm -rf {foo}/{bar}
with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line.All servers got deleted and the offsite backups too because the remote storage was mounted just before by the same script (that is a backup maintenance script).
How I can recover from a
rm -rf /
now in a timely manner?