I recently decided to replace the SD card in my Raspberry Pi and reinstall the system. Without any special backups in place, I turned to rsync to duplicate /var/lib/docker with all my containers, including Nextcloud.

Step #1: I mounted an external hard drive to /mnt/temp.

Step #2: I used rsync to copy the data to /mnt/tmp. See the difference?

Step #3: I reformatted the SD card.

Step #4: I realized my mistake.

Moral: no one is immune to their own stupidity 😂

  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    163·
    9 months ago

    I know I’m going to get down voted for this but this would be almost impossible to fuck up with a gui. Yet people insist that writing commands manually is superior. I’m sorry for your loss.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Guardrails are absolutely not a reason why people prefer the CLI. We want the guardrails off so we can go faster.

      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        9 months ago

        This is on me for sure that I’ve never seen anyone be faster using a CLI compared to a GUI especially for basic operations which is what most of us do 95% of the time. I know there are specific cases where a command just does it better/easier but for me that’s not the case for everyday stuff.

        • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          But what about the movies where the actors are typing commands and a visual GUI is moving around and updating on the screen (and making sound effects too).

          Isn’t that the best of all worlds? /s

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      There is something to be said about CLI applications being risky by default (“rm” doesn’t prompt to ask, rsync --delete will do just that). But I’ve definitely slipped on the mouse button while “drag & dropping” files in a GUI before. And it can be a right mess if you move a bunch of individual files rather than a sub-folder…

      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        At least for windows, you can ctrl-z that away and it’ll handle your mouse fumble. Explorer also highlights the files after a copy so if that doesn’t work (and it was a copy action), just delete them immediately.

        I haven’t used *nix for daily stuff in years but I’m sure the same abilities are there, surely.

    • lhamil64@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      To play devil’s advocate, tab completion would have also likely caught this. OP could have typed /mnt/t<Tab> and it would autofill temp, or <Tab><Tab> would show the matching options if it’s ambiguous.