I was just watching a movie while suddenly all the files except the hidden ones in my home directory were gone, just as someone issued the command sudo rm -rf /home/shakir/* To avoid further data loss, I quickly power off and boot into my Ubuntu live CD to create an image of my /home partition. [...]
I’ve suddenly lost all the files in my home folders, and I quickly do these to not let the impact to be as bad, if it ever recurs. Say 192.168.1.10 is my backup server (anduril), herugrim is my laptop’s name, these are the steps I did to let my laptop automatically rsync to the backup [...]