Re: [Hampshire] error competition

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Author: Victor Churchill
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] error competition
On 19 August 2011 10:32, Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:

> On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann <edward.beckmann@???>
> wrote:
> > what duff error gives the most spectacular failure?
>
> Someone in an Ubuntu support channel complained of data loss when he'd
> run rsync with "--delete" and had the source and destination the wrong
> way round. Goodbye data!
>


Thank goodness for '--dry-run' ...