Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 15:21 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> Yesterday I had a little accident when I accidentally
> deleted an unknown number of files in /var.

Since I haven't seen anyone else mention it, I will: The chances of
that happening are drastically reduced when you don't run as the root
user unless you absolutely have to. And when you do, be very careful
with wildcards and graphical file managers.

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