On Sun, 5 May 2013 03:21:02 +0200 (CEST) Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2013-05-03 at 10:30 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
One other item: I use the flags '-avAX' followed by '--delete' without the '--delete-after'. More below.
I once destroyed a system when attempting to do backup. I was using - --delete and I wrote the wrong source and target directories - as both did not match, the destination was deleted.
Ouch! You're supposed to "engage your brain" [as in 'engaging' gears in a transmission] *before* tapping the 'Enter' key! ;-) This is precisely why I always, always, always _stop_ beforehand to read back and contemplate, to confirm, my typing _before_ committing to the operation. And, when this strategy fails, there is always the extra copy, right? So, when something horrible _does_ happen one can at least restore to a consistent state? Thanks for bringing up such a valuable point, Carlos. The partitions I omitted earlier, for "clarity," were precisely those containing the redundant copies of my backups. :-) regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org