There is no reason to “pick a side”. Situations like this aren’t usually black and white.

As others already did I also would challenge your (purely) conservative tag. One of the most prominent “features” of current conservatives is to remove support and even legal standing of non-traditional families.

Do you believe that family should have all the same rights, protections and support your “traditional” family has?

I would hardly call it your fuck up. You wanted to back up the data manually and were told not to - that’s on your supervisor/boss/whoever called the shots. Not on you.