On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:32:38PM +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > > administration mistake and how did you recover? > > The worst admin mistake is failure to secure proper backups. Full stop. > Early one morning I was experimenting on one of my company's Linux servers. In the home directory of a test user, I issued:
rm -rf * I did it on purpose. But it took a long time to remove what should have only been a handful of files. I hit Ctrl-C and then 'ls'. I realized that I had a shared company network drive mounted as /home/testuser/company, and it was deleting everything on that drive! 11 GB of data was deleted from that drive. Thanks to BackupPC, I had everything restored in 15 minutes. Nothing was lost, and only one person even noticed what happened. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110914155144.gb29...@aurora.owens.net
