On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 20:24 -0500, Radissthor wrote: > Guys!! something horrible happened... After I rebooted and BIAB still didn't work I thought maybe I had to remove all Wine applications (BIAD was the only one installed anyway) and isntall it again... so I run > rm -rf $HOME/.wine > and eberything was deleted!!! my home folder, everything!!! there's nothing left!!! PLEASE HELP!!!! > Yep, rm can be extremely dangerous. Always use it with care. If you have a backup, restore the /home structure from it. If not, a clean reinstall is probably the best move, following by reinstalling any non-standard packages, making a backup as soon as the system is back together and remembering to take regular backups thereafter. Hard drives do die, some makes more frequently than others. Backups: - Mondo is OK, if a bit slow and you like backups to optical media. - I prefer using a portable USB drive and doing the backup with rsync. The first backup may take an hour or two but after that its quick: rsync always does the minimum work needed to make the backup match the main drive. My weekly backup of two fully loaded development systems takes under half an hour. Martin
