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What's the biggest mistake you've made on a server?
I think mine would have to be what happened to me today. I accidentally deleted /etc and didn't have a recent backup of it. Fortunately, I did have a backup of my nginx config and a very old backup from a previous install.
Thankfully I've never done rm -rf / except intentionally on a machine I was just messing around with. Mistakes happen to the best of us, so what's the biggest mistake YOU've made?
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yum update
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SSH, backup and reinstall the OS, then realize that I SSH and backup wrong server
Reinstalled the wrong server.
centos
Started to buy vps.
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
rm -rf /
delete files and configuration.... only to realize I forgot to ssh and I'm still in my desktop.
How is that a mistake when you wanted to do it? (--no-preserve-root)
cuz he's trying to be funny
I am using mc for all the tasks around. Guess is a reminiscence of the old norton commander (oh tempora, when norton was actually making useful things).
Thus, it happened quite frequently to delete in the wrong panel. At least once a year i do things like these that end up being costly. Fortunately, as any paranoid person, I keep backups of the back-ups on virtual machines of which i take snapshots every hour...
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:(){ :|:& };:prepare your boat.. flood is coming!!!
nobody sets their ulimits?
rpm -e rpm
yum remove bashModerator on a forum I own decided to prune old threads, unfortunately he pruned everything that hadn't had a reply in 7 days (i.e. about 80% of 1 Million posts). Stupidly our backups hadn't been working so we lost everything.
Ouch, dang.
Howcome so many people ever tried rm -rf /?
Curiosity if Linux would prevent us from actually doing it and to see if it was possible while running the OS :P
assdkasdlas you crashed my node. You owe me $10,000 in reparations.
just kidding.
I forgot it, and suddenly pressing Enter lol
I typed "poweroff" and shutdown a node instead of the VPS i wanted to shutdown.
LOL @rds100
Tried to repartition a KVM instance and completely fubar'd the whole thing. Ended up having to reload it. No data lost – I'd had the sense to make a backup directly before the attempt – but it was a waste of two or three hours.
screwing up the server and to do a clean re-install
Welcome to the club... It was a time I had multiple machines named debian and didnt notice when I was in which terminal window... Happened so frequently to shutdown the server when I was going home, that I decided never to name a machine debian again and also to quit the habit of shutting down from terminal.
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This.