On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:33:49 -0300 Mauro Souza <thoriumbr@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. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@teledyneoptech.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson