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How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV

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What it is

Pixar staff tell the story of how Toy Story 2 was almost deleted from the studio's computers and was saved by a home computer backup.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN shares it as a classic backup and operations cautionary tale.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “which I highly recommend if you are in storage, DevOps or SRE”

    Toy Story 2 near-deletion story, relevant to storage, DevOps and SRE

    alexpotato, 2026-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Honey, We Bought an AI Story”

  2. “The (amusing and animated) YouTube video link has since been changed”

    Amusing animated retelling of Pixar accidentally deleting Toy Story 2

    danso, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “How Toy Story 2 Got Deleted Twice, Once on Accident, Again on Purpose”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: toy story 2, pixar, backups, devops, data loss

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