I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.
Last evening, I deleted a file by mistake in my dhcp server. Five minutes later I had recovered the file from the previous night’s backup and was going about my merry way as if nothing happened.
If humans can make mistakes with the files, you should consider having backups. Having backups is something you decide to engage in BEFORE you have a loss event, so that you are prepared for when humans make their mistakes.
I am a human, and I know I make mistakes, therefore I prep even my silly infrastructure at home to defend against my sillyness.
This is where we sort the younglings from the grizzled veterans that backup and test their backups. Haven’t lost a file since 2002.
I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.
Last evening, I deleted a file by mistake in my dhcp server. Five minutes later I had recovered the file from the previous night’s backup and was going about my merry way as if nothing happened.
If humans can make mistakes with the files, you should consider having backups. Having backups is something you decide to engage in BEFORE you have a loss event, so that you are prepared for when humans make their mistakes.
I am a human, and I know I make mistakes, therefore I prep even my silly infrastructure at home to defend against my sillyness.