On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 02:06:32PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
That is why you test your script and just echo commands like the above to check the script will fill in the details appropriately. The script could also have built a path and stored it in an environment variable then checked the variable contents before use.
Yep, of course.
Also, for this to have deleted everything it would have had to have been run with root privileges.
And it was.
Its one thing for this to happen to a home machine. For a company server you would expect to have more than one backup and never hook up more than one backup to the live servers at a time.
Of course you should have more than one backup device. As long as it is connected to the live system, it is NOT a backup device. It is only a backup device when it is no longer connected. Seems this person didn't understand that.
As has been suggested, it is likely a hoax. Perhaps an April Fools joke that someone picked up and ran with not realizing it was a joke.
I wish I could believe that, but I suspect it really did happen. Some people should not be designing and running systems. -- Len Sorensen