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?

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