Chris Mason wrote:

> If it makes you feel any better, I had a backup script that created a copy
> of the /etc directory each night.
> I decided to delete it, so I typed "cd /backup" then "rm -r /etc". Gives me
> the chills just to type it into an email.
> I did get the server operational by copying the directory from an other
> similar server, but decided to reinstall as it was too much trouble to make
> it 100% again.

    I don't get it.  If you had a backup script that created a backup every
night, it shouldn't have been that hard to just restore that backup once you're
removed /etc...  That's the point of the whole backup, is it not?

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