Dir gone - how to get it back?

[rikona]

Hello Ric,

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 12:31:40 PM, Ric wrote:

> 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.

Hmmm.... interesting approach. I might consider that...

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?

Oops - again I was not clear. I was using 'home' in the sense of
'home' for one user, not as 'home' for all users. This is mostly a one
user box, with a few other accounts for special purposes. So - not 40
users - just 40 dirs under one user. I have quite a few dirs to help
keep things sorted, not just the few default dirs. 

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 rikona