[clug] extundelete

[David Schoen]

On 31 August 2010 18:05, Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We will not be discussing exactly why I need this at this present juncture.
>
>
> Andrew, I'm sure that the only reason nobody has popped up to laugh is
> that each and every one of us has at some time felt the chill of "Oh
> no, what did I just do?"
>
> Here's hoping that extundelete saves your bacon.

What, you mean that one where you spend 20 minutes checking that the
extremely complex find command you've written to remove a small subset
of cache files on Prod system will be perfectly safe only to realise a
split second after pressing enter that you didn't run the one you
tested and instead ran something much less safe that's capable of
deleting the whole data directory of the app you're maintaining... oh
and then found out the backup scheme you thought was in place didn't
actually work.

Oh if I'd only known about extundelete that day... or had lvm
snapshots... or had a replication system to pause... or something...


Cheers,
Dave