On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:33:49 -0300 Mauro Souza <[email protected]> wrote:
> I saw this on Slashdot and on serverfault. He was using Ansible at the > time, and all remote backups were mounted at that time, and wiped clean too. > > Yes, catastrophic mistake, but he could recover almost all data with > testdisk. I recovered a disk for a colleague once, could recover almost > 95%. A journaled filesystem is very good for recovering things. I have my backup script set up to create the mount point, mount my backup drive, backup, unmount the backup drive, then delete the mount point. I did this in case I get a destructive cracker. I was _very_ careful when I tested the script. I do so appreciate the rmdir command. Most of my backup recoveries are due to me doing something stupid like the subject of this thread. -- Howard Gibson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
