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In 1998, disaster struck at Pixar. A single mistyped command — rm -rf / — began erasing Toy Story 2 from existence.
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A single mistyped command erased Toy Story 2 from existence in 1998. Pixar's backup system had quietly failed weeks earlier. Backup from a mother's laptop allowed the team to recover nearly everything that was lost.