On 2022-08-24, Shadrock Uhuru <niyal...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi everyone > after losing a considerable amount of data that i had accumulated over the > last year or so > by trying to remove a directory called '~' that i had created by mistake > in a sub directory of my home directory with rm -rf ~ > which of course started to eat through my home directory with a vengence, > i managed to stop it before it went to far, > i didn't have any recent backups,
As you probably now figured out, use quotes: '~' "rm -rf -i $whatever" if you have any suspicion that the name might be "difficult". (-i must come *after* -f, so there's little point aliasing rm to rm -i). > needless to say i've learning my lesson about having a good policy of regular > backups. > what are the recommended partition to backup if > > 1 i want to do a fresh reinstall e.g. to move to a larger hard drive. > 2 for a disaster recovery like what i experienced above. > > i will be using ville walveranta's autodump 1.5a script > which does a full dump on sundays and incremental dumps during the week, That's a far more complicated script tgan I woukd consider using for backups. Do you understand what it does and how it works? A backup done to the same machine is not really a backup. > i already have /home /etc and /root set for backup, > are there any other partitions i should bear in mind ? /var, maybe exclude /var/cache. (maybe also /var/log, but it can be useful to have). -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
