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#2 Re: Question: Making efficient backups on Debian? Posted by asg on Fri 10 Dec 2004 at 13:30 Another, though somewhat tangential, item that one might keep at least a local copy of (generated from a daily cron job) is a list of all files including owner/permissions for those pebcak moments when you get creative with chmod -R :) We get a lot of people on #debian asking things like: I just typed chown -Rf root:root / and went for a coffee! Help. A simple recovery for such cases would be having a local copy of the system's ownership and permissions.
Another, though somewhat tangential, item that one might keep at least a local copy of (generated from a daily cron job) is a list of all files including owner/permissions for those pebcak moments when you get creative with chmod -R :)
We get a lot of people on #debian asking things like:
I just typed
chown -Rf root:root /
A simple recovery for such cases would be having a local copy of the system's ownership and permissions.
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