[Tutor] OHMYGOD...

[Kirk Bailey]

OOPS...

We lost the site. ALL of it. EVERY last file. Completely erased. And I 
am embarrissed to admit I did it myself.

I installed the moinmoin wiki. I decided it was iinsecure and went to 
delete the thing, and all it's subdirectories. I *THOUGHT* I was in the 
moin-1.0 dir when I issued "rm -R *".

I was in the domain's webroot. The entire domain (the box holds several) 
went away.

NOW, *YOU* LEARN FROM *MY* TRAGIC MISTAKE. DON'T DO THAT!

Good thing the hosting firm does backups, even when it's my box. BAD 
news is the last one was 3 weeks ago. TinyList.1.7.3 is GONE, tarball 
ANd working installation. Several site page updates are GONE. Several 
doc file updates are GONE. The recently installed wiki is GONE.

3 weeks of my life down the John L Crapper just that easy. Wonderful and 
powerful is FreeBsD.

Fortunately, the damage is moderate. I had 1.7.0 saved locally, and 
uploaded it. The wiki also was locally stored, but not it's pages. I 
have worked all afternoon to rebuild it as best I could.

Oh- a wiki. Click this to see our wiki and have some fun with 
interactive web pages. It's written in python of course.
http://www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/piki.py

Dont't do that... verify everything before doing anything serious.





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         Kirk D Bailey

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Sigh.