THE VIDEO SHELF · backups and data loss
How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV
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 HN readers recommended it
HN shares it as a classic backup and operations cautionary tale.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- @HOLLYWOOD
- Topic
- backups and data loss
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Took my kids to see Toy Story 5. While watching it, I thought about AI generated content. I have never personally met anyone who worked on any of the Toy Story movies. I know, from documentaries etc, who Brad Bird and John Lasseter are. I've …
alexpotato on Hacker News · 2026-07
In Honey, We Bought an AI StoryI was surprised not to see this mentioned in the front page discussion about the guy who supposedly rm rf'ed his web hosting service [1] The (amusing and animated) YouTube video link has since been changed: [VIDEO] I like using the Pixar incident when working …
danso on Hacker News · 2016-04
In How Toy Story 2 Got Deleted Twice, Once on Accident, Again on Purpose
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.