On 28 Jun, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:17:44 EDT
> Stephen Ryan said:
>
>>The last time I accidentally deleted files, the damage was so great that
>>I reformatted, reinstalled and restored from backup rather than
>>trying to recover several thousand files one at a time (the scene at
>>SysAdmins Anonymous: "Hi, my name is Stephen, and I've typed rm -rf
>>/"), so I don't actually know how well those procedures work, but I
>>suppose it's worth a try if there's no other way of getting your files
>>back.
>
> See, my philosophy in action. Stupidity was painful for you, so you're much
> more likely to be more careful in the future.
Oh, yes. Very true.
> Happens to all of us. I once tried untarring Ultrix onto a Sun OS system.
> Funny how the Ultrix commands wouldn't work under SunOS :) That was quite a
> painful lesson for me, and ever since I look at my commands twice, sometimes 3
> times before hitting that enter key :)
Hey, I've heard that there are only two kinds of system administrators:
Those who have accidentally done (the moral equivalent of) rm -rf /, and
those who have not yet done so.
Excuse me, I'm off to run another backup.
--
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Technology Coordinator
Center for Educational Outcomes,
C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College
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