The command which resulted in the deletion of his entire company was “rm-rf”. For reference, ‘rm’ literally means “to remove” whereas “r” means to delete all things within given directory and “f” means “force”. These commands direct the computer to snub the warnings that usually come while deleting files. These codes direct the computer to delete everything, same happened with Marsala. Marsala also said that due to this code all of the backups were deleted as the drives which were backing up the computers were attached to it, so as a result computer also deleted the backup too. “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)” he posted. We have mentioned some answers where the users said that there may not be any chance for Marsala to recover the data of his company. “I feel sorry to say that your company is now essentially dead. You might have an extremely slim chance to recover from this if you turn off everything right now and hand your disks over to a reputable data recovery company. This will be extremely expensive and still extremely unlikely to really rescue you, and it will take a lot of time” answered a user namely Sven. “If you really don’t have any backups I am sorry to say but you just nuked your entire company.” wrote a user namely André Borie. “You’re going out of business. You don’t need technical advice, you need to call your lawyer”. wrote a user namely Michael Hampton. This shows how the single line code of code resulted in the deletion of entire company, even that code managed to delete backup from his computer.
