Yeah, tools in the ssh, scp, s* category definitely beat ancient technology like telnet and used correctly they are a useful alternative to NFS too.
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Ugh - I deleted a lot of important files from my backup with the stupid use of an rsync option (–delete-excluded) I was thinking it would only delete what was on the excludes list. But no, it deletes everything that’s not in the source directory.
Fortunately, I had a backup of my backup, which saved the day.
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“Fortunately, I had a backup of my backup, which saved the day.” That’s THE WAY to do it, and I practice what I preach. For me, most of my online content is where I find, and even document things, so I can re-create most of my systems simply by installing or reinstalling from USB removable drives. On the systems where I actually save more content, I back up that content periodically. Today, as a matter of fact, I restored a system that worked but was behaving in a funky way. The restore not only brought it to a current state, equivalent to what I replaced except it works cleanly; I’m using it now in fact.
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