no... not friday but rather Monday. On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:54 AM Michael wrote: > boy I wou'd be really screwed if I lost my data. Luckily I backed up my > most important data friday night. > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:21 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> As much as you randomly blow up your system Mike, you should embrace a >> separate nas (network attached storage) solution. If you want something >> simple, get a qnap or synology nas device, at least a 2 disk system, and >> use something like unison/rsync to replicate important data over cifs/nfs. >> You can buy cheaper nas systems on ebay, usually random chinese hardware >> suited to running freenas or like, but however you do it, have a copy of >> your data when experimenting and deleting anything. >> >> If I wiped out my home directory without a backup, I'd lose 20+ years of >> 100+ different companies I've worked at since late 90's (ie. my >> livelihood), not to mention almost 30 years of personal data, and just not >> an option. I replicate my data hourly between 2 laptops, 1 desktop, and 2 >> synology nas systems that real-time replicate data directly. If I did >> screw up that bad, I'd just kill replication and move a copy of the data >> back from my nas. >> >> Last time I did something like that almost 20yr ago, I was moving files >> around, I accidentally started moving all files from /sbin into another >> directory, fubar'd the system (at the time, a monitoring server that I ran >> Cox Business Services off of), but learned real quick the importance of >> thinking before doing. Slow. It. Down. Think about what you're doing >> before hitting that enter button. It's much the same when I'm doing >> network deployments to enterprise devices, or just mucking around with my >> workstation. Don't be that guy if you're ever in a position to admin >> business systems. >> >> -mb >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 2:12 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> OOPS. I hit return after typin rm -rf it deleted everything in /home. So >>> I restored my system and now this happens: >>> bmike1@bmike1-desktop:~$ sudo apt install gparted >>> [sudo] password for bmike1: >>> Reading package lists... Done >>> Building dependency tree >>> Reading state information... Done >>> The following additional packages will be installed: >>> gparted-common >>> Suggested packages: >>> gpart reiser4progs udftools >>> E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock. It is held by >>> process 84872 (synaptic) >>> N: Be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break >>> your system. >>> E: Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ >>> bmike1@bmike1-desktop:~$ >>> >>> >>> it happened before and as a solution killed the roces. It happened again >>> so I must find a solution. WIll someone share their wisdom? >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: