Hi All, Thought I'd share with the board my big error over the weekend and also to highlight the importance of backup!
I recently bought a 1tb external HDD to mirror my /storage folder on my server (running vortexbox), its got about 450gb worth of music, photos etc, I set this backup to run using rsync and it ran daily. Over the weekend I travlled to my to parents house and brought the server with me, on Sat I couldn't get Squeezecenter to run, I worked out this was a space issue and from that noticed that the previous nights rsync job had run without the External HDD plugged in and had filled the 20gb root partition on the server. I navigated to /media/externalHdd to delete the storage folder there which had incorrectly been created with the backup job, however I made a fatal mistake and instead of rm -rf storage/* I did rm -rf /storage/* This then deleted the entire 450gb worth of music etc. ....it was too late to change it once I realised. Thankfully when I return home on weds my External HD will be there with the server backed up from thurs (I hope nothing has happened to it!) however I have been kicking myself ever since for the error ! Does anyone with Linux experience know of a smarter way of doing the backup, I'm presuming something like a shell script which checks for the external HDD being mounted before running the backup ? Secondly is there a way of protecting the /storage part of the server to stop running commands like the above, I log in as root when ever I'm doing work on the server Thanks Ian -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66269 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
