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Well as you all know backups are for chickens....but yesterday I manged to remove my /etc

Yes I know-- how is it even possible to be that stupid...so here we go;

I had an old backup on my USB drive.
This drive had a backup from my old Arch server and contained the directories /etc and /home

Since I have replaced that server with a Centos server I thought I'd delete those directories....

So cd into the USB drive and did a and that of course did not remove the etc directory on the USB drive but the /etc on my main box

Stupid stupid stupid

So suddenly my user was completely gone root was gone and those users were gone even if I chrooted into it with my Viking Rescue system.



Yeah that is bad but I was able to download and burn a Manjaro iso with SystemrRescueCD from our eminent rescue system and burn it to a DVD,

I started the Calamares installer and partitioned manually and had the option to keep the old data so I kept /home as is and also chose "keep" on /

That should replace my missing /etc.

I configured my user with the same data and password as before and was able to boot into my environment.

Every config file is there ('cept those in /etc of course) but I need to reinstall all missing programs.

Let this be a lesson to you

I also have this script that backs up my /home on a daliy basis and in there I have pkglist.txt file that contains all installed packages:

I created it like this:

I restored it with:

That should pretty much save my bacon.....depending on how old that file is....

Oh, holy crap!
Even worse is no one else but me noticed!

whoot.. eh how long we are linux-addicted ?
the first rule,

1. never touch a running system
2. make script-backuptools.
3. safe it, before it to late "tar cfvz /mnt/save/save/save/etc-%date%.tar.gz /etc"




best regards
Blacky

We have those things. Sometimes however, we get busy, and plus, it's a lot more fun to screw a system up and then fix it lol. Anything else is just plain boring.