JerryS wrote: > Your post gives me the courage to confess to an act of stupidity which > may serve as a warning to others. Initiating a Grsync backup session > before switching on the machine containing the files to be backed up, > does exactly what you say, very fast.... catastrophic deletion of files > from the back up disk...... Doh.......
Been there! My main rsync job (the #1 backup) is wrapped in a Perl script that counts directories on the source drive and doesn't do anything if nothing is found. I haven't found this to be an issue since putting everything under Ubuntu, but it bit me pretty hard once when I was doing file sharing under Windows. Both Vista and 7 had a nasty habit of deciding they didn't want to share any more... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105604 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
