[Public] ARG!

[deana_in_texas]

Today's lesson will be about backups. Specifically about saving your OWN damn backups and not relying on the sysadmins copies

Comments

[mlik]

To avoid this in the future, you could alias 'rm' to 'rm -i' to prompt every time you want to delete something. Then if you are sure you want to delete something, you can use 'rm -f' to skip the prompt.

[deana_in_texas]

yeah, actually it -was- aliased that way by default, and I unenabled it, because I always forgot to use -f and it annoyed me to have to confirm all the time. But I guess I'll be putting it back now :(

it's just weird, because when he told me he didn't have that file in the backups, he gave me printouts of my directory for all his backups, which is incremental backups for every day this week, and a full backup for the last 3 Sundays. And he's right - all the files EXCEPT that one are there. It's very strange - I have no idea what weird condition caused this file to be ignored.

[mlik]

Sounds like the filename matched a backup exclusion list. Files like a.out, core, typically don't get backed up.

[deana_in_texas]

It was HMMNode.java - it'd be pretty random if it made it on there. Interestingly, the other .java file there was backed up, as well as the .class files (I was in the process of editing this file, still adding functionality, so those aren't sooo useful, though I was given a "java decompiler" that will supposedly write code from my class file). It's very weird, and frustrating.