Oops.

rafael on 2002-03-15T21:04:07

Yesterday I entered the usual command rsync -avz --delete rsync://...(the perl-current repository) . to resync the bleadperl source tree on my machine.

Unfortunately, I forgot to chdir first. The current directory was my $HOME. Consequently, I lost all my files.

Then, I had to recover.

• First, I got some coffee.
• I had a backup of my mail, so I only lost a few messages I just received.
• I recovered my environment settings and my bash aliases and functions through set and alias.
• Some of my dotfiles (vimrc, Xdefaults, bookmarks, etc.) are available on my website, so I didn't lost them.

But I lost my procmailrc (argh), my newsreader scorefile (double-argh), and my extensive collection of desktop backgrounds.

End of the story: I now have a cronjob that backups all this stuff on another disk.