The No-Backup Lament

thanks to James Weeks, Churchbass mail list

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a millstone hanging over me.
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong,
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data's gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for backups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.