On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:52:37AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > just wanted to share: > a production system of mine (very very important actually): > i use rsync, i specify .. accidentally as opposed to . > i use the --delete flag > --> /etc/* recursively gone. > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH > > but: i have a week-old backup. > i am ssh'd into the thing. no problems though > (what happens when you delete the registry of a running windoze > system?) > i can't rsync anymore (/etc/passwd gone) > but proftpd works. so i dump the backup etc as tarball and restore. > > then i use tripwire to at least discover which files i modified in > the last seven days... > > wow. too much for my heart at 3am. but i think the system will > survive...
Heeee! I've had this sort of thing happen to me once before. Except I was grabbing some files from an old backup, and accidentally type in 'rm -r /usr' instead of 'rm -r /tmp/usr'. ALSO, my week-old backup was made just before I did a revision upgrade (I think it was hamm -> slink). I hand-reinstalled a few packages (would have given my roommate's right arm for 'apt-get install --reinstall' back then) and ran the machine for about a month before rebuilding it. -- Ferret
