-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/08 15:37, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: >> On Mon June 16 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> Copy it back over from your latest backup. >>> >>> Though, this would require that you are already making backups. If >>> you're not, consider this a lesson about why you should, go get yourself >>> a big, external firewire drive (and a compatible controller if your >>> machine doesn't support firewire yet) and check out the faubackup >>> package. >>> >> >> ok, so my Mybook backup is a few months old.. I was using an rsync >> command line to backup my desktop. >> never heard of faubackup before! >> # faubackup /home /media/disk ( the Mybook 750Gb.. external USB HD) >> >> lets see how long it takes.. >> >> yeah, but this was also too late for me:) I uh, managed to wipe out my >> wifes entire Mail folder ( kmail)... ran some stupid command that was >> supposed to do a maildir2mbox conversion. Well, it sorta did, but only >> the top level folders, and it wiped out the entire folders email, >> including sub folders.. and the mbox files were not in subfolder >> format... >> SOOOooo, I had to do a quick mbox2maildir, humbly apologizing that >> I'll make backups more often:) at least before I do anything stupid.. >> >> > Before I run "for d in * ; do mumble $d && rm -rf $d;done" I always > stick an "echo" in there, so I can se that it will do the right thing. > Then I hit up-arrow, appropriate number of ^b and ^d to get rid of the > echo.
Major ACK!!! The extra few "wasted" seconds/minutes you spend testing saves a lot of grief. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhW1DgACgkQS9HxQb37Xme5+wCgiGo9QhLjJ8AD06zhU15YBEcl dBYAn1IRUZdTZO7ViJ2v+jUA37n0sAuv =fyMF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
