That was close
2006-05-07 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've been rearranging directories in my public website, and corresponding
directories on the fileserver. The most recent operation was to move theStarport.com/people/steve/Doc/ to theStarport.com/Steve_Savitzky/. Everything went well; I did the move,
made the corresponding move in the CVS repository (it's done using a
one-line find
command), fixed up the Makefile
s
(two similar one-liners), and then went to move the latest backup
directory so that the next rsync
wouldn't have to copy all
the sound files and other bulky stuff.
That's when I noticed that /bak/usr/local/starport
was a
symlink. I'd installed a new, large disk on the fileserver a little over
a month ago, and moved /usr/local
into a separate partition
called /local
. I then made a new
/usr/local
just for the fileserver. I was backing up the new
directory, which was in the same old place, but not the new
partition
. Oops.
No real harm done -- there haven't been many changes since late March when I installed the new disk. Except for the major changes I made this weekend, and I've backed all that up now.