[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[Mauro Souza]

I saw this on Slashdot and on serverfault. He was using Ansible at the
time, and all remote backups were mounted at that time, and wiped clean too.

Yes, catastrophic mistake, but he could recover almost all data with
testdisk. I recovered a disk for a colleague once, could recover almost
95%. A journaled filesystem is very good for recovering things.

Mauro
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2016-04-15 14:09 GMT-03:00 Scott Allen <mlxxxp at gmail.com>:

> On 15 April 2016 at 12:47, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
> > This isn't true of the rm(1) command.  No operand means delete nothing.
>
> The following article gives more specifics:
> <
> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html
> >
>
> The script actually contained
> rm -rf {foo}/{bar}
>
> The error caused foo and bar to be null so the result was
> rm -rf /
>
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