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Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

Well I’ve joined the “accidentally trashing your system with rm -rf” club! Luckily I didn’t delete my home directory with all the things I care about, but I did delete /boot and /usr, and maybe /var (long story, boils down to me trying to delete non-system directories named those but reflexively adding the slash in front...

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Yes but it’s hard work.

I did it from the other side of the planet. I accidentally ran an rm -rf … command on a running system. Luckily I had an identical system running that I could use to copy over the files, devices, etc.

Learning about inodes and /proc/xxx/fd works, I was able to recover enough files to then copy over the rest from the other system.

Doing it over SSH from the other side of the world was a tough 14 hours.

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Clarity.

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*waives

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Nextcloud does all of this.

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