Oh my God

[robinturner]

I just found out that while messing around with this Perlboard thing, I screwed up with my FTP program and did "rm -r" in the wrong directory. My whole site is gone! And it would happen to be the one site I don't have backed up locally.

mv self /dev/null

Comments

[ex-fauxpas266.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!

That is horrible!!!

Which site?

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

oh no.

p.s. this would be the one occasion where I regretted not having MS windows, to ask me boneheaded questions like "ARE YOU SURE? ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE ALL THESE FILES?"

[asteriskhere.livejournal.com]

No!! It can't be!

Is it Sensible Marks or something else??

[asteriskhere.livejournal.com]

I see your post below about the class site. Is that the one that is lost?

[solri.livejournal.com]

Not such a big deal, fortunately - it was my www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin (http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin), which I used mainly to link to my other sites and as a backup facility. The only thing of note I lost was a few pages on Linux, which were pretty out of date anyway - I kept meaning to update them and never got around to it, so this is probably an omen. If I'd done it to Sensible Marks of Ideas (http://neptune.spaceports.com/~words) that wouldn't have been a problem, since I have the whole thing on my home computer as well.

I like the comment about idiot warning messages. Actually, Linux is usually pretty good with things like this: I've had warnings like "Doing this can make your system seriously unstable and break things. Are you sure you want to continue" and "You're logging on to IRC as root. That's really dumb." The difference is that MS tends to treat the user like an idiot, while Linux treats her/him as an intelligent and knowledgable person who might just have had too many cups of coffee.

In fact the "rm" (remove) command normally asks for confirmation before deleting each file unless you set the "-f" (force) flag. However, in ncftp, which is a really nifty FTP program, it doesn't. Must remember this, since a way I sometimes use for clearing up directories where there are only a few files I want to keep is to type "rm ./*" and just type "n" for the files I don't want deleted. Anyway, time to at least get my index.html page back up there, then hunt around for backups.