For context: I'm just now past the worst of my recovery from some overly zealous housekeeping deletions from an non-backup-ed part of the filesystem on a remote DOcean droplet, over SSH. And, thank you for your effort in replying to me.
Ask HN: Your shell console "sanity prompts"?
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#3I met a sysadmin who made a backup of all user home directories, then ran a script to delete (rm -rf) all data from users that haven't been logged in the last months. On that system the home directory of the user 'root' was /home causing all directories to be wiped.
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#4I met a sysadmin who made a backup of all user home directories, then ran a script to delete (rm -rf) all data from users that haven't been logged in the last months. On that system the home directory of the user 'root' was /home causing all directories to be wiped.
This makes me want some kind of the OS X "System Integrity Protection", but for CentOS and Ubuntu. I mean there HAS to be something like this? Maybe this is what the substitute user is all about and I just kinda suck!
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#5Get a good backup solution and start backing up everything. Crashplan is not bad.