[afnog] Self induced Mail Server (POP) crash and recovery.

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Thu Nov 19 10:40:43 UTC 2009


> The thing u need root rights to do maintenance and even with sudo I am
> sure this would still have happened

anyone who has been a sysadmin for more than a couple of years who says
they have not done some form of `rm -rf *` is not to be trusted.

three things you must do to keep from very time consuming disasters:
  o backup,
  o backup, and
  o backup

and test the restore workflow.  it can be fixit cd or whetever when you
are local.  i am always remote, and am considering flash usb in every
server.

randy



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