[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[Howard Gibson]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:33:49 -0300
Mauro Souza <thoriumbr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

   I have my backup script set up to create the mount point, mount my backup drive, backup, unmount the backup drive, then delete the mount point.  I did this in case I get a destructive cracker.  I was _very_ careful when I tested the script.  I do so appreciate the rmdir command.

   Most of my backup recoveries are due to me doing something stupid like the subject of this thread.

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