From: Ted <ted@...>
Date: 2002-12-07T13:48:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Thank God for backups

Thanks for the reminder... </me runs off to start a backup...>

> I was working on the tutorial just now and wanted to delete all the *~
> files.  But instead of typing `rm *~` I typed `rm *` and all the files
> were silently deleted.
> 
> This could have been a tragedy if I didn't have a recent backup made on a
> sepparate directory.  Since I did, I actually lost very little work.
> 
> Lesson of the day:  Always backup.  Eventually you'll be glad you did.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
> 
>