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What happens if you make just one little mistake....

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Others agreed that perhaps Mr Marsala was on the wrong forum.

“You're going out of business,” wrote Michael Hampton. “You don't need technical advice, you need to call your lawyer.”

Many of the responses to Mr Marsala’s problem weren’t especially helpful – pointing out that he could have taken steps to stop it happening before it did.

“Well, you should have been thinking about how to protect your customers' data before nuking them,” wrote one person calling himself Massimo. “I won't even begin enumerating how many errors are simultaneously required in order to be able to completely erase all your servers and all your backups in a single strike.

Wow

Did the guy mistakenly post his predicament in JetBlast :)

A lot could be recovered, All "rm -rf /" does is remove the directory (folder) entries, the files themselves remain on the disk. There are programs that read the raw disk and recover what they can. I would pull the power cord out to prevent any over-writing on shutdown then reboot from a "live" recovery disk or memory-stick, Knoppix for example. Needs physical access obviously, or a fast phone call to the actual hosting data-centre.

Same applies to hosed Microsoft systems with disk problems, I have rescued a few for friends also using Knoppix for the rescue. Then just find out where the bad sectors are on the disk, move the partition boundaries to avoid them and return to service (with a bit less disk space available). This trick won't work with SSDs unfortunately.

However a thought occurs, to remove everything as described "root" (administrator) permission is needed, what was the guy doing running a bash shell as root on a server? As is so common there may be more to this than was reported.

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I once worked for a company where the owner almost burnt down his own building by throwing a cigarette butt into a skip in the underground car park. The fire brigade put it out but his Porsche which was parked next to the skip suffered some damage.

I bet the company risk registrar was amended at the next board meeting. Maybe this is what could also have saved the person mentioned in the OP, no not a fire but having a risk registrar, you never know, it could of had him doing backups.

apparently this was a hoax/troll/publicity campaign