If ever there was a time to kick myself square in the pants, today is it. I’ve been working on a biggish project, and have gotten to the 95% mark when I hit the wrong button and deleted the whole directory with all the files in it!
And the last time I made backups (or when our backup server was actually still on) was about 6 months ago. Terrible TERRIBLE feeling. Strange how I always insist that our clients understand the value of backups, but I let my guard down with it comes to my own stuff.
Part of our service offering to clients is data recovery. As I’m running Linux with Ext3 Filesystem it is a bit more difficult than normal and a lot more labor intensive.
I am now waiting to see if it’s going to work. It will probably take another 2-3 hours before I know if I’ve lost the whole week’s worth of work. It’s not only the time I need to get it working again, but it’s to remember how exactly I did it!
Damnit, damnit, damnit!
My old boss used to tell me, when I lost some code, “It’s always easier the 2nd time round.”
It took me about 3 hours to do what I did in 2 days. I’m so happy that at least I’m up to date and can complete the project now!