{"id":78,"date":"2006-08-09T17:50:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-08-09T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T01:50:39","slug":"well-that-was-a-stupid-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/78","title":{"rendered":"Well, that was a stupid move"},"content":{"rendered":"

While killing some time between sessions at WWDC<\/a>, I saw that my mother-in-law was online so I thought “Hey! what a good time to back up her data.” So took but a moment to start a rsync backup that I do of her user directory on her machine to my system at home. To keep things from getting out-of-hand with regards to space, I use the –delete option which removes any files not in the source directory.<\/p>\n

Like all mistakes<\/a>, they happen because you don’t pay attention and that is exactly what happened to me. I was in the wrong destination directory and was syncing the files to ‘.’ (the current directory) so it happily started deleting files that weren’t in the source. Unfortunately, I was in my home directory at the time. Once I realized, my mistake, I stopped it but not before it had deleted my mail repository, my website, and my blog (this one).<\/p>\n

Fortunately, regardless of my horribly rookie mistake, I also back up my user directory two different ways every day. A few restores later and I had all but a few hours of email restored and the entire website and blog.<\/p>\n

Good for me, I guess, but it shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Lesson learned, use explicit paths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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