I hope everyone backs up their data. Think of the time you have spent creating config files, documents, and secret love letters. It would be horrible to lose it all.
Well I am preparing for a long road trip so I figured I would put some music on my media player. My player is old and I am currently eyeing new ogg/flac players but anyway, the software to manage the player has two windows. The left window has your home directory from which one may select files to copy to the media player which is displayed on the right window. I confused which window held which and desired to erase everything currently on the player and select new music for it. Well "select all" plus the delete key soon left me with my entire /home directory deleted. I first noticed when my background disappeared and was struck with terror.
Luckilly I had recently made a full backup and was able to restore. I do not have automated backups and just lucked out that I had recently rsycned everything to a spereate hard drive. I hope this tale is warning to everyone to take a moment to backup their data. I know it is a pain but do it. I am still mad about the weeks worth of tinkering with configuration files that I lost but I am ever greatful of my backup. I had everything in a RAID so I do not worry too much most of the time but that is useless for when you acciedently press delete on your own files.
Take out your flash drive now and place everything important on it now. Thank you.
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I use dropbox (getdropbox.com) to backup all my writings and important files. I've set up a cron job so that every week a tarball is created, saved to ~/Dropbox, then automatically uploaded to my dropbox, which exists somewhere in "the cloud." Very convenient.
Ya, I have used dropbox but I have not untilized it much. What I use it most is to share files with friends who use dropbox since you can share dropbox folders which is really useful.
I like the idea of putting tarballs in my dropbox though and might do that thanks! Still not a total solution for backing up any new files/folders as they would not be included in the tar script. Also I have switched to just using a window manager (Xmonad) so I do not have nautilus installed, and as of now I think dropbox only works with nautilus.
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