Comments on: *ouch* http://www.the-shrike.net/2005/11/ouch/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:22:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: curson http://www.the-shrike.net/2005/11/ouch/#comment-60 curson Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:44:25 +0000 http://www.the-shrike.net/2005/11/ouch/#comment-60 Ehehehe, that's something I've already learnt: never suppose your LinuxBox is going to avoid doing something you told it, just because it's stupid! :p Oh... I call it a backup script, but indeed it's just a Bash script with a lot of "tar -cvvf *" and moving to my NFS partition. It works, but for sure it's not <em>nice</em>. Ehehehe, that’s something I’ve already learnt: never suppose your LinuxBox is going to avoid doing something you told it, just because it’s stupid! :p

Oh… I call it a backup script, but indeed it’s just a Bash script with a lot of “tar -cvvf *” and moving to my NFS partition. It works, but for sure it’s not nice.

]]> By: Gullyt http://www.the-shrike.net/2005/11/ouch/#comment-59 Gullyt Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:25:53 +0000 http://www.the-shrike.net/2005/11/ouch/#comment-59 I saw once, having a stage in a small software house in milan, someone being almost fired for typing "rm -rf /" as root, in a production machine!! Pay attention on what you write in your console, since no penguin - unless it is unexplicably called "Bill" - will ask you twice before eating out all of yuor data ;) Some day we will talk about your backup script I saw once, having a stage in a small software house in milan, someone being almost fired for typing “rm -rf /” as root, in a production machine!!

Pay attention on what you write in your console, since no penguin - unless it is unexplicably called “Bill” - will ask you twice before eating out all of yuor data ;)

Some day we will talk about your backup script

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