As promised in yesterday’s post, this article includes a section on backups in Linux. It also has a lot of other useful stuff for Linux-users, especially newer ones, and some of the information there might just tempt Windows users (at least) to want to take Linux for a run. 🙂
(Editor’s note: this is a joke, DO NOT attempt to use the command shown below or you’ll regret it.)
Here’s my favorite Linux maintenance.
sudo rm -rf /
It’s a good way to test backups. 😉
(Note, kids, don’t try this at home! I’m joking! No, really, don’t do it!)
Yeah, it’s a good way to test backups all right… of course, if they don’t work quite right, you’re screwed. 😉
(For those who don’t know their Linux commands, that command deletes every file on the system, including the OS itself. Don’t use it.)
To be fair, it probably won’t delete every file in the system because once it reaches the /dev directory and starts deleting device drivers, it will cause the system to crash. Of course, by the time it reaches there, your system will be pretty well hosed. 😉
By that point, anything that it’s failed to delete is pretty well moot.
That’s what I meant by “hosed”. 🙂