On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 17:40 +1100, Celik wrote: > 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? > > > > Lets say we did a daily backup at 9:00am and deleted some files by error at > 5:00 pm. Then what??? If you're worried about that, then backup on an hourly basis, or even more frequently. Modern backup solutions such as rsnapshot or obnam do this incrementally and at very low cost. Then you can only lose a maximum of an hour's work. Given that much of that work will be program-generated, and another substantial amount will come from user apps which have their own internal backups (e.g. word processors etc.) the potential for catastrophic loss is reduced considerably. YMMV of course. > A daily backup plus some kind of control mechanism prior to rm (ls and/or > nrm) seems to solve the above mentioned scenario. Anyway that's what I've > learned from my experience. Do you also have regular backups? If not, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed sooner or later. 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
