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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently decided to replace the SD card in my Raspberry Pi and reinstall the system. Without any special backups in place, I turned to rsync to duplicate /var/lib/docker with all my containers, including Nextcloud.

Step #1: I mounted an external hard drive to /mnt/temp.

Step #2: I used rsync to copy the data to /mnt/tmp. See the difference?

Step #3: I reformatted the SD card.

Step #4: I realized my mistake.

Moral: no one is immune to their own stupidity 😂

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I know I'm going to get down voted for this but this would be almost impossible to fuck up with a gui. Yet people insist that writing commands manually is superior. I'm sorry for your loss.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Guardrails are absolutely not a reason why people prefer the CLI. We want the guardrails off so we can go faster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is on me for sure that I've never seen anyone be faster using a CLI compared to a GUI especially for basic operations which is what most of us do 95% of the time. I know there are specific cases where a command just does it better/easier but for me that's not the case for everyday stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

But what about the movies where the actors are typing commands and a visual GUI is moving around and updating on the screen (and making sound effects too).

Isn't that the best of all worlds? /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fair enough.

CLI is not about ease to begin with, it is about versatility.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is something to be said about CLI applications being risky by default ("rm" doesn't prompt to ask, rsync --delete will do just that). But I've definitely slipped on the mouse button while "drag & dropping" files in a GUI before. And it can be a right mess if you move a bunch of individual files rather than a sub-folder...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

At least for windows, you can ctrl-z that away and it'll handle your mouse fumble. Explorer also highlights the files after a copy so if that doesn't work (and it was a copy action), just delete them immediately.

I haven't used *nix for daily stuff in years but I'm sure the same abilities are there, surely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

To play devil's advocate, tab completion would have also likely caught this. OP could have typed /mnt/t and it would autofill temp, or would show the matching options if it's ambiguous.