Linguofreak
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In a moment of incredible stupidity, I recently managed to render my computer unbootable and subtly, but pervasively, corrupt my backup while trying to perform a restore from backup. (Mercifully, I'm fairly certain the corruption is reversible)
So I'm sitting without my main system for a couple days, if not more, and misery loves company. In that light, does anyone care to share their worst "Oh " moments in performing computer maintenance?
The thing that really stings about this one is not only *should* I have known better but I really *did* know better, and managed to let impatience get the better of me.
Moral of my particular story: *Never* restore a backup to the root folder of your currently running system. Boot from a LiveCD first, mount the filesystem you're restoring, and restore the backup to that mountpoint.
So I'm sitting without my main system for a couple days, if not more, and misery loves company. In that light, does anyone care to share their worst "Oh " moments in performing computer maintenance?
The thing that really stings about this one is not only *should* I have known better but I really *did* know better, and managed to let impatience get the better of me.
Moral of my particular story: *Never* restore a backup to the root folder of your currently running system. Boot from a LiveCD first, mount the filesystem you're restoring, and restore the backup to that mountpoint.