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Wherever you are in the filesystem, typing /usr/bin/rm -rf 
/home/backup/* would have prevented the mishap.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Dow


Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

> Ok, too early in the morning, and little coffee has been ingested (and 
> it's really close to a long weekend).  Anyway, here's the deal.  I 
> have a server that houses all of it's data in /home.  There's a 
> subdirectory (/home/backups) that had a backup of all of the stuff 
> that was in /home (all of the data) that I needed to empty (not delete 
> the directory, just empty it out).  Generally, I'll cd into that 
> directory and do an rm -rf *, which works really well.  Since the 
> process is a once-in-a-blue-moon thing, I've not bothered scripting or 
> automating it.  At any rate, I had to do it this morning.  
> Unfortunately for me, I was in /home, rather than in /home/backup.  I 
> very quickly realized what I'd done (about 2 seconds), but had already 
> started the command.  So, here's the quandry.  I know *some stuff* 
> must have been deleted.  I'm hoping that it starts deleting at 0 and 
> progresses to z.  If that's the case, it would have started in the 
> /home/backups directory, in which case I have nothing to worry about 
> (i.e. nothing outside of /home/backups would have been bothered).  Can 
> anyone confirm / debunk this, or tell me where to look it up?  Thanks.
>
> \/-- insert flames here --\/
>
>


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