On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 23:58 -0700, Rick Walker wrote: > > > I'm not a fan of trash directories. They give you a second chance, but > > > you may end up not really deleting things you wanted to delete. What > > > about a simple script something like this? > > If you want something a bit more polished, you might check out > "nrm", available at http://www.omnisterra.com/walker/linux/nrm.html > > It's a C program written to have the same arguments, return codes and > side effects as /bin/rm to the extent possible. > > It moves files into the hidden sub-directory ".gone" instead of removing > files. You can remove files with "-s" and you get sequenced backups - > all files are saved with a time-stamp suffix for fine grained file > restores. There is a program "urm" to unremove the file, but most users > just do "ls .gone" to see what they've recently removed and then just > "mv" it back to their working directory. > > There is an associated cron job that runs every day to permanently > remove all deleted files that are older than a configurable age. > The default is 3 days so you can get things back on Monday that you nuked > on Friday. I prefer to run a daily cron job to back up my home directory, which also allows me to look back over previous versions. I happen to use rsnapshot for this, but plenty pf other solutions exist. At some point a pseudo-rm is going to fail, either because the implementer didn't handle some corner case correctly, or because you typed rm instead of nrm, or because a file was removed by a program without anyone typing anything, and the only solution is to have a backup. So if you're going to have a backup anyway, what's the point? poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
