{"id":474,"date":"2003-08-22T23:29:57","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T23:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:58","slug":"dont_touch_that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/08\/22\/dont_touch_that\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t touch that button!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The short story: I deleted a file on my Linux server responsible for part of a Web site I’ve been working on working on and I tried to “unerase” it. 24 hours later, due to an almost unbelievable series of technical hurdles, it still wasn’t unerased and<\/i> I’d thought I’d lost every file on my workstation and was left without a working backup (resulting in the loss of data from 20 years ago up until now).<\/p>\n

Currently: All of my workstation files are available again, but the one file originally deleted 36 hours ago is still deleted. I’ll now spend the 2 hours or so it will take to recreate it from scratch.<\/p>\n

Coming up: A much longer journal entry listing all of the details, and outlining the torturous path I walked down in the last two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The short story: I deleted a file on my Linux server responsible for part of a Web site I’ve been working on working on and I tried to “unerase” it. 24 hours later, due to an almost unbelievable series of technical hurdles, it still wasn’t unerased and I’d thought I’d lost every file on my …<\/p>\n

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