Dir gone - how to get it back?

[Ric Moore]

On 05/15/2013 11:57 AM, rikona wrote:
> Hello Ric,
>
> Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 2:38:13 AM, Ric wrote:
>
>> On 05/15/2013 01:14 AM, rikona wrote:
>>> I'm setting up a new 12.04 box. Just installed a few printers, which
>>> seemed to go OK - BUT, after that, one of my home dirs is GONE! Was a
>>> BIG one with about 1/3 of the stuff in home, and very important. Any
>>> idea of why just that dir [apparently] disappeared? Better still, any
>>> way to recover it? I can't see it via another admin account, or with
>>> the CLI. New box, a few days of intensive work, and didn't do a backup
>>> yet. :-(
>>>
>>> What's the best thing to do [not involving a large soothing glass of
>>> Scotch :-) ]?
>
>> Did you by any chance have it on it's own partition? (could but hope) so
>> you need to only remount it? Ric
>
> I did not mean the entire home was gone - only one of perhaps 40 dirs
> under home. And no, home is not in its own partition. But you bring up
> a good reason to have home separate. In cases like this it would be
> nice...

Having only one user here, I do not back up /home or /home/ric
I back up all the data directories (Documents - Downloads - Desktop - 
Music - Video - Pictures)to another partition, as that is the only stuff 
I consider worthy of backing up. No old .config files, excepting 
.mozilla and .thunderbird. I keep a home/ric directory stored on /opt 
where is where the linked-to directories are hidden from clean upgrades 
on the / partition. Then I just restore the links and I'm back in business.

I >DID< do an in-place upgrade to 13.04 and I'm starting to regret it, 
with little wonky behaviors showing up. So, I'm prepping to install it 
cleanly.

With 40 users, it might not be a bad idea to have another machine 
devoted to backing up the users via network local "cloud" or an NFS 
scheme? Ric





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