[Gloucs] Never ask me to admin your server!

[JiNxY]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 20:08, Paul Broadhead wrote:
> Thomas Adam <thomas_adam at bonbon.net> wrote:
> 
> > > rm -rf/var/lib, yes /var/lib!  Oops, there goes my entire /var/lib
> > > directory tree, not just the cvs directory.  No backup yet, Bum!
> > 
> > Well, that was silly! Generally my approach to that sort of thing is to:
> > 
> > 1. If you have a /var tree (and I am assuming Debian here) on a similar
> > box, copy that over. Don't worry about a mis-match of packages that
> > can be sorted out later....
> 
> I knew I should have posted here first.  Next time I'll try your
> solution!  As it happened, the reinstall was much simpler than I
> expected.  Even cvs is working now :)

Nightmare. Reinstalling was probably best as you'd be doing basically
that if you used 'testing/unstable' stuff anyway.

I had my PC lockup once just when dkpg was doing something and I think
only now, many months on is the dpkg DB about 90% right again. Worst of
all it lost libc6 but I had enough to get by on as I still had the
actual files just dpkg didn't know I had. :)

As for backups. Been on my list of 'things to do' for years now ;)