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 usin
I would suggest a look at rdiff-backup
(http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org) for a similar rdiff-like solution but
which will also efficiently maintain a number of previous backup
snapshots as well. It's easy to script and automate, and has worked
well for me for a while. I run it nightly to an internal
socistep;445326 Wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> 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 t
A long time ago, well before sudo came to existence, I did, as root: "rm
-rf . /foobar" where I wanted "./foobar".
Oh well, homedir gone, ridiculed by colleagues etc.
- never work as root. never.
- always use "." to prepend your path when expressing relative paths
- prefer developing a small wra
