The best Ops people I have worked with (looking at you Dennis and Alan) repeat everything back that I say. More than once I have caught mistakes in my approach simply by hearing someone else repeat back exactly what I just said.
My worst nightmares are nothing but a blimp on a developers mind. I've have lost it all. I have lost it all on multiple servers. On multiple volumes.
No one should ever experience that. Ugh, developing, sometimes, is just so frustrating.