Greer’s Third Law: A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.
I’ve been around Linux long enough to know that the fabled Linux command:
rm -Rf *
is dangerous, and I have to say I’ve never lost data by using that one wrong. But there are other, more subtle ways to lose data if you’re not careful, and today I’m going to share a tale of this. Continue reading ‘Linux: How to lose data fast with ‘rsync’’